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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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England’s rolling green hills and city parks were baked brown.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

Twenty-four minutes later, the tops were craggy, the centers soft and brownie-like, and just enough little green threads remained visible to remind you what season it was.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

Today, the home still boasts a textured, warm feel, coupled with several color-drenched spaces, such as a dark teal den—and a kitchen with bold green cabinets.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Across the final three pairings, Scheffler's four-under 66 was the only round to break par with his superb ability to find green after green giving him a substantial edge over his rivals.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

In 1998, the society had enough of Dr. Harlow's money left to help pay for the bronze monument to Phineas Gage on the town green in Cavendish, Vermont.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

Nitrate is found naturally in many vegetables, especially beetroot and leafy greens such as spinach, rocket, and lettuce.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 2026

Here’s how one of L.A.’s freshest new restaurants makes grains, greens and veggies sing — and how home cooks can replicate its grain bowls and salads.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Growing venture capital–backed consumer brands, like Blank Street Coffee and dentist office Tend, traded in neons for pastel greens.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

The outside world recedes, and the colors of the house’s interior slowly deepen from cheerful yellows and blues to muted greens.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

How could I tell him about the apple tree, about what I had thought that morning while I picked the flowers and the poke greens?

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

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

A new report from the London People's Assembly on Food, Nature and the Right to Grow outlines 12 demands to make the capital "greener and more edible" by 2035.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

I walk outside and the green on . the trees seems greener, so potent I can almost taste it.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

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

In 2007, architect Carl Elefante expressed an idea that has since become a common provocation in the world of architecture: The greenest building is one that’s already built.

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

I had grown up in the greenest, most beautiful valley on the island.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

Residents began using the newly greened streets as a pedestrian corridor that allowed them to interact more with their neighbors.

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

People around greened lots reported feeling less depressed.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 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

Industry groups and the state poured money, millions, into finding a cure, and every time they thought they’d figured it out, it didn’t work, and the greening accelerated.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

It wasn’t just greening that had to be worried about.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

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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