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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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She asked the BBC to not use her real name out of fear it could impact a pending case to extend her green card.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

SoftBank Group 9984 7.00%increase; green up pointing triangle is up 6.5%, Fujitsu is 3.1% higher and Nomura Holdings is up 1.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Picturesque villages of green paddy fields and houses sat beside vast chunks of land washed away.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

They both call for increasing public green space throughout L.A. and sourcing 70% of the city’s water locally.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

On the first two fingers of her left hand, she wore leather finger-guards, and strapped to her right forearm was a wrist-guard of polished green slate.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

Instead of cooking the pasta separately, Meghan puts it directly on top of tomatoes with some lemon zest and greens, then pours boiling water over the whole mixture.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 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

He and Mama were very independent on the farm, raising just about everything our family needed to eat: beans, greens, peas, potatoes, corn, wheat, apples, grapes.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

He, along with the rest of us, watches Flo leave—for greener pastures.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

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

It's also the location of what was supposed to become Europe's biggest and greenest electric battery factory, powered by the region's abundance of renewable energy.

From BBC Jan. 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

She had the greenest eyes you’ve ever seen.

From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner

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

And all the snowmelt has brilliantly greened what’s often a dry, brown tinder box by this time of year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 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

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

Citrus greening disease is caused by a bacterial infection that is delivered by the gnawing of the Asian citrus psyllid.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

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

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

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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