green
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He also called for increased funding for parks, adding: "Every neighbourhood should have access to a public green space."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Nieuwenhuijsen knew from Levine’s podcast that he was also researching a potential companion to his unnamed “Lady,” that portrait of a young Black man in a green jacket and cane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Bhengura moved to the U.S. and spent 18 years working toward becoming a legal resident, securing his green card in 2022.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The green bollards seen on Bellflower Boulevard and Studebaker before the redo often get hit by cars and can resemble thick blades of stomped grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Then an Elder with a blue apron with pictures of blueberries and green ribbons stepped forward and hugged him.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
Despite hitting his drives and irons brilliantly, he frequently ran into problems on the greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
Ekemeni placed a large steaming bowl of greens on the table.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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However, he adds, a greener economy can create new jobs with greater productivity.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
No matter how many commitments data-center operators make to safer, quieter, greener innovations, recent history has convinced many communities not to trust any of them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 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
As they traveled north, the trees became taller, greener, stronger.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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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
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
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
“The color brings out your eyes. Not that they need it. They’re the greenest thing I’ve seen today. Like a piece of spring.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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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
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
At Fort Young, restorations have strengthened and greened the property, and eco-certification efforts began in earnest this year.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 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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Since the onset of the greening crisis, soaring prices for not-from-concentrate juice and competition from other beverages—particularly at breakfast—have driven down orange-juice consumption by more than half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The other puts a harmless virus into trees to help them resist the 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
Rations among the Army were reduced to salt-pork, now rank with flies and greening.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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