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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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Apple stood out as the single “Magnificent Seven” name in the green on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Judd Apatow, who helped get the show green lit with HBO, will also return as executive producer.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Below, a circle of polished black granite set within green marble mirrors the dome — a reference to Albuquerque’s 1989 public artwork, “Site, Memory, Reflection,” and to the architecture of her Tunisian childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Geological evidence and plant fossils show that the Triassic landscape of Kariba was dry and dotted with stands of large conifer trees, with green corridors of vegetation following permanent watercourses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The house was at one point painted a bright green, but now only a few flaky patches of paint remain.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Social-media users are savaging promotions depicting unnaturally regular greens, shrimp like O-rings, unhealthily slick noodles and stippled chicken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

"We need greener, fairer supply chains that take into account workers' issues and wages."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

A side-by-side comparison shows how much greener the fairways appeared in summer 2025 compared with this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

But the sandwiches were excellent, on thick fresh bread, and the view outside the car grew greener every minute.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

"Edinburgh is the UK's greenest city, with almost half of the city being classed as green space and more trees per person than any other city in the UK," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

That means the greenest new building is one that’s in the center of town.

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

She had the greenest eyes you’ve ever seen.

From "Stone Fox" by John Reynolds Gardiner

The persistent heat will dry out vegetation and increase the chance of fires in grass-dominated areas that greened up after the plentiful rains this winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

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

Often, that's good news—the events have ended droughts, refilled reservoirs, and greened rolling hills.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024

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

Grégoire did not comment, but Béchir Saket Bouderbala, a local assemblyman whose remit includes animal welfare and urban greening, said that city hall supported Paris Dog Week, which was organized by local business owners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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 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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