ground
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After spending decades and roughly $14 million buying, gutting, and selling properties, the Tulsa couple is now enjoying their ninth home—one they built from the ground up.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
But investors had hoped for more progress toward reopening the crucial strait, where oil tanker traffic has ground to a near standstill since the outbreak of the war, sending energy prices soaring.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Under the country's Sex Discrimination Act, it is illegal for providers of goods or services to discriminate against another person on the ground of a person's gender identity.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
As the ice disappeared, the ground above it shifted and collapsed.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2026
The ground itself was shaking under our feet.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Vocabulary lists containing ground
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