green
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U.S. stock futures are in the green, however, putting major indexes on track to break a four-day long losing streak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
France’s Ipsen IPN 0.51%increase; green up pointing triangle is considering building a production site in the U.S., joining other European drugmakers looking across the pond when planning new investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Each kit has half a paper plate that’s been cut down the middle, plus little black stickers for the seeds and two crayons—one pink, one green.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Guests worried about greens switched to grains and pitas for a period, Tolivar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
Here’s how one of L.A.’s freshest new restaurants makes grains, greens and veggies sing — and how home cooks can replicate its grain bowls and salads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
We put in carrots and collard greens and onions and shell peas.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to greener technologies would be better for supporting jobs.
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
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
From building wind turbines to reinforcing power grids for rising demand from electric cars, transitioning from fossil fuels to greener economies will require a massive increase in metal extraction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was a fine morning for hunting, with the air still and the rising sun shining bright on the tall green grass and the greener leaves of the timber.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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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
In 2007, architect Carl Elefante expressed an idea that has since become a common provocation in the world of architecture: The greenest building is one that’s already built.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 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
The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
I gawked about me like the greenest country lad as we were escorted to a massive square hall with a lead roof and high, arched windows.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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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
Some research has found that greening projects are contagious: Neighbors of greened lots start taking better care of their own yards.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 14, 2023
In a randomized controlled trial, our team found that people living near newly greened spaces reported feeling less depressed than those who did not.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
People around greened lots reported feeling less depressed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 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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That doesn’t mean cities should avoid urban greening projects.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
Dantzler told me that he didn’t see 2005, when greening symptoms first became clear, or 2017, even with Irma, as the turning point.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Cotton grew in the field that bounded the railroad tracks and the air was laden with the opulent smells of greening crops and leafy forests.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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