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green

[green] / grin /




ADJECTIVE
referring to practices or policies that do not negatively affect the environment
Synonyms
NOUN
square or park in center of town
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—U.S. futures were mostly in the green, with the S&P 500 up 0.2% and Nasdaq futures climbing 0.9%, though futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Calls are put into categories - purple and red as the most urgent, orange for things like heart attacks and strokes, then yellow and green for lower priority calls.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

The new fab is Kioxia's second facility in the green outskirts of the city of Kitakami, an area with several other big factories.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

A new image captured on June 13, 2026, shows the rover as a tiny green speck against the Martian landscape, just one day before it officially reached the distance milestone.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

She points between the healthy, plump, bright green leaves.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

On Tuesday the Michigan health department said, “available information indicates that lettuce or salad greens may be a potential source of this outbreak,” however, other food items cannot be completely ruled out.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Pay attention when lettuce or greens show up in sandwiches or burgers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

Rahele Jomepour Bell’s deft use of acrylic paint and soft pastels evokes a world of hazy tranquility, a palette of greens, golds and oranges imbuing each page with a palpable warmth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

World number one Scottie Scheffler found greens and birdies hard to come by as his bid to become the seventh player in history to complete the career Grand Slam got under way.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

I can smell chicken and shrimp and greens wafting up from the kitchen, all the way from the very first floor.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

You know the story: The pool got greener and greener.

From Slate Jun. 27, 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

Ancient rivers crossed a greener environment, feeding shallow lakes that grew and shrank over time.

From Science Daily May 16, 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

She was greener than a gourd, but she only swallowed hard.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

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

I was behind the wheel of the biggest, meanest, greenest, most American street-legal machine in existence.

From Slate Jun. 22, 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

Lyra—over Roger’s fervent protests—picked out the oldest, twistiest, greenest bottle she could find, and, not having anything to extract the cork with, broke it off at the neck.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

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

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

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

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

It wasn’t just greening that had to be worried about.

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

Every May brings Atomic Bomb Awareness Month to Camillo Junior High, right after the greening grass and the yellowing forsythia.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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