green
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And the green is tiny with a deep run-off to the left and water to the right.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Like nearly everyone I grew up around in this corner of Pennsylvania, Sundays in our house were a congregation in green, and I was the lone holdout in the pew, quietly pulling for New England.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Jordan sewed sage green curtains to conceal additional storage spaces and further brighten the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Unsurprisingly, they’ve been abused, and green groups in particular have turned them into a profit model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Another woman—white, with short dark hair capped by a green cloche— leaned against a worktable wedged into the other half of the room.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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When she learned a colleague could not tell the reds from the greens in a presentation, she stepped in with a colorblind-friendly palette.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nitrate is found naturally in many vegetables, especially beetroot and leafy greens such as spinach, rocket, and lettuce.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Growing venture capital–backed consumer brands, like Blank Street Coffee and dentist office Tend, traded in neons for pastel greens.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Officials in Michigan, one state with a disproportionately large number of illnesses, said earlier this month that it had become safer to eat lettuce and salad greens as case counts started to fall.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It was October, and the hillsides were awash in oranges and yellows and reds and greens.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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"I will continue to vehemently oppose these plans as I seek to build a fairer, safer, greener, more prosperous London for everyone."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Until recently, it has been a premium product, a greener alternative to the fish meal that underpins the $300 billion-plus aquaculture industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Participants who recycled, used reusable cups and containers, took public transportation, ate greener diets, or cycled to work were no less likely to support wider climate policies and collective action.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
He had no idea Blodgett's Crossing had so many trees; it was greener than he would have guessed.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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It ranges from the greenest to the dirtiest, from established technologies to speculative ones, and even includes companies that play tangential roles in the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
"Edinburgh is the UK's greenest city, with almost half of the city being classed as green space and more trees per person than any other city in the UK," he added.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Rather, it reflects a 21st-century understanding of the environmental movement, one that recognizes that an existing neighborhood is the greenest place for housing to be built.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
I stared about, openmouthed, like the greenest plowboy.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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The persistent heat will dry out vegetation and increase the chance of fires in grass-dominated areas that greened up after the plentiful rains this winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Secrets of photosynthesis have been discovered at atomic level, shedding important new light on this plant super-power that greened the earth more than a billion years ago.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
Often, that's good news—the events have ended droughts, refilled reservoirs, and greened rolling hills.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
At Fort Young, restorations have strengthened and greened the property, and eco-certification efforts began in earnest this year.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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So experts said countries across the region should further insulate energy systems against more frequent disruptive weather events by diversifying and greening their grids.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Her priorities have included early education expansion, school greening improvements, literacy through phonics training, protecting immigrant students and focusing more budget resources on the highest-need schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
I asked numerous people—farmers and industry leaders and researchers—to estimate how many trees in Florida now have greening.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Dantzler knew citrus greening as well as anyone.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Rations among the Army were reduced to salt-pork, now rank with flies and greening.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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