lush
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The setting is rural Michigan, where poverty and hardship coexist with lush natural beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Surrounded by lush tropical greenery, the estate was designed to embrace seamless indoor-outdoor living while taking full advantage of its oceanfront setting.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Even the normally lush fields of Somerset withered in the heat.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
But one boy stood still, pensively staring up at the lush green mountains that surrounded them.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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I suspect Nick will finally come out of the closet, and those East Egg lushes will reappear in the 1420s, the 1720s and space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
There's a late-night grilled cheese place just a few blocks down the street from my apartment up here in Canada, one frequented by the local students and lushes on weekend evenings.
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2016
If we ever launch a space capsule documenting the drinking traditions of Earth for the benefit of extraterrestrial lushes, we should choose this one to represent the bloody mary.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2014
Titans is a retread, clogged with louche lushes in tuxes and gowns, its old-money family saga as tired as the Williams bloodline.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There he stood now, his right hand out, palm upward, his lips curled in the ghastly imitation of a smile, blue gums and yellow lushes showing, a sight to freeze the blood with horror.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
Darlings of New York’s late-1970s music scene, David Byrne and his bandmates started as a defiantly simple act and gradually took on a lusher sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
This much lusher treatment follows the trend of celebrities and public figures taking their messages straight to the public, using the language of social media rather than conventional news or an interview.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
Spiky as she’d always been, but leaner and lusher at the same time.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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Robin Pecknold’s exquisite lockdown tunes pining for nature on 2020’s “Shore” should sound right at home in one of the Seattle area’s lushest venues — if you can afford it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
But her solo material has tended towards Americana, and On the Line is her lushest, most melodic record to date.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2019
We had a picnic on a highway median in California one time—it seemed like a park to us—and it was the lushest grass I had ever seen.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2017
I wanted to break at Indian Garden, one of the lushest and shadiest spots in the canyon and an area once farmed by Native Americans.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2017
He could hop onto it and trek right on back to the RV, which, relative to his present surroundings, is the world’s lushest palace full of what Dad would call “first-world luxuries.”
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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