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There are also flies — big blue and green flies with large, bright red heads — that residents are constantly swatting at outside their doors and windows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Renesas Electronics 6723 2.90%increase; green up pointing triangle is up 2.5% and Lasertec is 6.5% higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Some might be longtime residents with green cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The European Union on Wednesday gave the conditional green light for Paramount Skydance's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Two of the white flowers are goose-poop green.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Pair the greens with your favorite grains, whether that’s brown rice, quinoa or farro, and oven-baked salmon.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Likewise, Mamas’ Pizza and Gelato, in Milltown, Ind., has thrown out all its lettuce and other greens, and it’s only serving spinach cooked.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
I found, unsurprisingly, that the steps people have taken vary quite significantly, but they all have one common denominator: The greens are cooked—in more ways than one.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
While on the job, he whipped together a salad dressing to get the men on his crew to eat their greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
I knew exactly where the basket was, on a shelf in the kitchen cupboard, and where the greens grew.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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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
"For a council that describes itself as a smarter, greener, fairer borough, it's just absurd that we've got something that generates so much CO2," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Harry walked back to the tent and saw Cedric emerging from it, greener than ever.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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
He uses this as an example of us "securing a brighter future for both animals, and us, too" in our unique metropolis - the world's greenest major city.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 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
Suddenly there was grass under his feet again—the greenest, softest grass that Roy had ever seen.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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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
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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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
The greening is “beginning to catch up to them,” Bryant said.
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
Cotton grew in the field that bounded the railroad tracks and the air was laden with the opulent smells of greening crops and leafy forests.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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