green
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The Bee bracelet turns on a green now-recording light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Shares of Frontier are a rare spot of green among ailing airline stocks this year.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
That tower, with “V-I-S-I-O-N” spelled out in seafoam green, has been an iconic piece of the Leimert Park skyline for almost a century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
That meaning is suggested in the company's logo, a stylized green and white eye.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Sela sifted through her beads while I picked green flakes of paint from the table in a pointless attempt to keep my mouth shut.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Bananas, potatoes, beans, leafy greens, and yogurt are examples of foods that can help increase potassium intake.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
One of the world’s most famous Porsches is a race car painted in a psychedelic swirl of purples and greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Chop herbs, grate cheese, cut citrus wedges and assemble any salads, keeping the greens and dressing separate.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 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
A hologram of neon greens, reds, and yellows explodes from the puck, making my eyes ache.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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In the interview, which was recorded last week, and aired on Monday night, she argued that Labour's push for greener electricity was "one of our routes to delivering affordability".
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Operating AI data centers isn’t any easier for companies that swapped out their bitcoin-mining servers for greener pastures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
Since he was unable to grow large crystals of horse myoglobin, he initially hoped I might have a greener thumb.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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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
I was behind the wheel of the biggest, meanest, greenest, most American street-legal machine in existence.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 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
We had flown to Kumasi to visit the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST, an expansive campus in the west of the city and probably the greenest university I have ever seen.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
Lyra—over Roger’s fervent protests—picked out the oldest, twistiest, greenest bottle she could find, and, not having anything to extract the cork with, broke it off at the neck.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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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Grégoire did not comment, but Béchir Saket Bouderbala, a local assemblyman whose remit includes animal welfare and urban greening, said that city hall supported Paris Dog Week, which was organized by local business owners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Florida’s orange production—more than 90% of which is used for juice—is down 95% since the arrival of the disease, called citrus greening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The track is one piece of a major greening project at the Westlake school that students, teachers and community leaders celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
So far, frosted food was brought from Earth in flying icicles; a few community gardens were greening up in hydroponic plants.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
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