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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
Synonyms


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SB Energy offered OpenAI a major perk to land it as a data-center tenant ahead of the SoftBank 9434 0.55%increase; green up pointing triangle -backed company’s initial public offering.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Twenty-four minutes later, the tops were craggy, the centers soft and brownie-like, and just enough little green threads remained visible to remind you what season it was.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

Bankers wore green Nike sneakers in a nod to SpaceX’s “greenshoe” option, which allowed the underwriters to sell more shares than originally planned in the event of heavy demand.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

But after getting the green light, Worthe pulled back, and the permit expired.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

There was a pale green credenza with a vase of flowers and an open envelope— with his address clearly marked.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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

Then we traveled by train to Lahore, where my dadi lived on a sprawling village farm outside the city, complete with chickens, cows, and fields of turnip greens.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

Programs that encourage employees or customers to adopt greener habits do not appear to weaken support for broader climate action.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

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

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

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

With transport making up the bulk of emissions, Ms O'Neill says it's crucial festival organisers work with transport providers to ensure that people travel in the greenest way possible to and from the site.

From BBC Feb. 12, 2024

Plus, I had the advantage of knowing the exact location of the greenest patch of wild parsley.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

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

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

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

Reeling from a depressed economy, then an explosive greening problem, then hurricanes, they were soon going to the statehouse, desperate for bailout money.

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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