green
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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