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Unless cooked, vegetables such as green peppers, green onions, tomatoes and mushrooms were also off-limits.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
In the space of about 20 minutes, two players added to men's major golf history at Royal Birkdale - but the reactions on the 18th green could not have been more contrasting.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It is the latest step the commission has taken that moves away from its historic green policies in recent months amid pressure from the bloc’s own industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Are they buying fewer types of green ingredients in particular or just forgoing certain places and brands altogether?
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Through the glare of the sun he glimpsed a sheet of green river, and an overhanging branch approaching him fast.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Likewise, Mamas’ Pizza and Gelato, in Milltown, Ind., has thrown out all its lettuce and other greens, and it’s only serving spinach cooked.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
I found, unsurprisingly, that the steps people have taken vary quite significantly, but they all have one common denominator: The greens are cooked—in more ways than one.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
While on the job, he whipped together a salad dressing to get the men on his crew to eat their greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Brown’s advice is, “don’t stop eating your greens because they help keep us alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But I really longed for a salad and fresh greens.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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We can at least keep air in the realm of absurdity by fighting for a greener future, which we can still see ahead, even through the smoke.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
"For a council that describes itself as a smarter, greener, fairer borough, it's just absurd that we've got something that generates so much CO2," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
"We are looking at environmental disasters like oil spills, and identifying ways to remediate them in faster, greener and more sustainable ways," Oran said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
Buoyed by a surge in hydropower generation and a greener electric grid than neighbouring India and Bangladesh, Nepal has emerged as one of the world's fastest adopters of EVs.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
He, along with the rest of us, watches Flo leave—for greener pastures.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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
We had flown to Kumasi to visit the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST, an expansive campus in the west of the city and probably the greenest university I have ever seen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
I had grown up in the greenest, most beautiful valley on the island.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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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
Trees with access to shallow water tables "greened up" during drought, the researchers found, while trees over deeper water tables experienced more foliage browning and tree death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
Residents began using the newly greened streets as a pedestrian corridor that allowed them to interact more with their neighbors.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 9, 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
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
Dantzler knew citrus greening as well as anyone.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
However the pumpkins got there, it was an uplifting sight, as was the greening of the mountains and foothills just up the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Outside, where there should have been a long, windowless hall with dark green numbered doors leading into other apartments, there was a greening field and a lowering sky.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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