green
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"We're switching to green energy, coal is over," he adds.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
As he began his bid to win two majors in the same season for the first time since 2014, McIlroy lurched from the sublime off the tee to the ridiculous on the green.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
A San Ysidro man is accused of a fake green card scheme, impersonating ICE agents and defrauding Orange County residents, prosecutors say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Eight of the index’s 11 sectors finished in the green.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
From the crest of the hill we saw it, like a vast scar on the green German landscape; a city of low gray barracks surrounded by concrete walls on which guard towers rose at intervals.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The Italian hit just 26 of 60 fairways, yet his nimble work around the dried-up greens helped him take home his first major.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Brown’s advice is, “don’t stop eating your greens because they help keep us alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
And even if you have recovered, throw out any leafy greens or other foods that may have caused your illness.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
He misjudged shots on the 10th, 11th and 12th holes, with his ball falling off the back of the greens as he posted three successive bogeys.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Flowers, greens, and buckets forgotten, we ran across the prairie, joined at the hands and wobbling like an unwieldy snake.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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You know the story: The pool got greener and greener.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
“You get good healthcare, nice leisurely lunches, it’s a different way of life,” he said, “It’s not that the grass is always greener, these are just facts.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
Though the new process will be greener, a fraction of the staff will be needed, with a loss of more than 2,000 jobs.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Ancient rivers crossed a greener environment, feeding shallow lakes that grew and shrank over time.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
The flowers on the hill smelled a litde sweeter and the grass looked greener.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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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
A code, which if cracked, could make the country one of the greenest producers of the metal.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2024
She had the greenest eyes you’ve ever seen.
From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner
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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
A 2018 study on cleaning-and-greening vacant lots in neighborhoods with residents living below the poverty line found a 29 percent reduction in gun violence around lots that were greened with trees compared to vacant lots.
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
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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
Industry groups and the state poured money, millions, into finding a cure, and every time they thought they’d figured it out, it didn’t work, and the greening accelerated.
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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