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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
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Just last month the WWF praised conservation efforts which had achieved the recovery of key species including elephants, green sea turtles and tigers.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

To be sure, stocks are still comfortably in the green for the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Critical minerals, which are a key focus of the summit, are needed for green technologies such as batteries and wind turbines that Europe sources mostly from China but are also in plentiful stock in Canada.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Large areas of hillside have also been observed turning green again as grasses, bracken and blaeberry begin to make a comeback.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Dozens of green papers, each printed with the number 100 in the corners, drifted down around them.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

My fridge is always stocked with: eggs, greens, a lot of Spindrift sparkling water, lemons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

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

The pot roast, collard greens, sweet potatoes, and baked apple pie.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson

Karen MacCormick from the company says waste incineration is a greener option than landfill because it can also generate electricity.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

"For centuries, Oxford Street has reinvented itself, adapting to changing times and helping shape British culture along the way," he added, saying the move would "revitalise" the road and make the capital "greener".

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

He had no idea Blodgett's Crossing had so many trees; it was greener than he would have guessed.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

It's also the location of what was supposed to become Europe's biggest and greenest electric battery factory, powered by the region's abundance of renewable energy.

From BBC ● Jan. 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

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

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

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

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

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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