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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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A federal judge in California ordered the companies to temporarily pause the deal in a ruling on Monday, just two days before the European Union gave the merger a conditional green light.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

Barnes, four other Times reporters and their families—along with the New York Times NYT 1.41%increase; green up pointing triangle itself—were swept up in a legal brawl over the Trump administration’s efforts to identify leakers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The company introduced flexible working, fidget toys in meeting rooms, and red or green "busy lights" on desks, that allow staff to indicate whether they're happy to be disturbed.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Although the work focuses on fundamental scientific questions, it is closely connected to technologies that could become increasingly important for Sweden and the wider green economy.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

Each kit has half a paper plate that’s been cut down the middle, plus little black stickers for the seeds and two crayons—one pink, one green.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

When it comes to greens, lettuce is king.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

From garlic-lemon sautéed greens to ramen topped with baby bok choy, here are a few great meals to make with just a box of chicken stock.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

Taylor Farms supplies several major restaurant and grocery chains — including Chipotle, which has said it doesn’t serve shredded iceberg lettuce and that its other greens are not from Mexico.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

There’s a massive plant wall flanking one side of the Main Hall, with about 1,200 pots of living greens.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Later, he would replace his cowboy hat with a fedora and, like Hoover, take up golf, putting the ball across the immaculate greens, where the new American men of money and power and leisure gathered.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

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

It skipped over hills greener than fresh twenty-dollar bills.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2024

Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

There was citrus canker, a viral infection that had plagued citrus for years prior to the arrival of greening.

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

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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