green
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But its goal is similar to Rivan’s: pull carbon from the air at a lower cost, produce green hydrogen and combine the two to make cheaper e-fuels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
In December, three new categories were introduced - orange for serious conditions, yellow for people who need to be assessed and green for less urgent.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
"There is that promise of a better tomorrow," said Tinubu, wearing flowing robes printed with his red, white, blue and green All Progressives Congress party logo.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, 56, who died of unknown causes last week at an ICE facility in Texas, was arrested because the agency alleged he had fraudulently obtained his green card.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
But while the rest of us gazed out at long rows of poplars in their bright June green, Mama’s eyes never left the sky.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Gone are the vivid blues and warm oranges and greens, crackling against film grain, that did so much heavy lifting for the first film’s leaden plot.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
The Englishwoman still could not buy a birdie putt on the slow greens but she never gave her opponent a sniff.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Guests worried about greens switched to grains and pitas for a period, Tolivar said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Yeah. Hand me that seasoning salt out the cabinet. You think you can get them greens going for me?”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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In May, Orbital raised $50 million to develop its new product: cooling systems that use more efficient, greener alternatives to the chemical cooling agents used in some data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"We need greener, fairer supply chains that take into account workers' issues and wages."
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
"There are so many brilliant things happening in our communities to make them greener, healthier and more resilient," West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker said.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
"I will continue to vehemently oppose these plans as I seek to build a fairer, safer, greener, more prosperous London for everyone."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But as the geese flew closer, the island’s greener interior came into view.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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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
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
Plus, I had the advantage of knowing the exact location of the greenest patch of wild parsley.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
Olsen told Jackson that you can cut off lightly greened patches and toss any potatoes with large green areas, though you may want to be more conservative when serving children.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022
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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About a decade ago, with greening pushing him toward bankruptcy, Rucks began diversifying: blueberries, bamboo, ornamental plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Florida’s orange production—more than 90% of which is used for juice—is down 95% since the arrival of the disease, called citrus greening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Similar greening projects are planned or underway at several other schools across Westlake, Koreatown and Pico Union, according to LAUSD.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
I did not return to the merry-go-round until the snow was gone and the grass was greening among the stumps.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
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