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lush

[luhsh] / lʌʃ /


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Blessed with a tropical climate and rich basalt soil, the lush Central Highlands produces vast quantities of robusta beans, and Vietnam trails only Brazil in coffee output.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Gloriously lush, vast and yet somehow deeply quaint, it was jarringly unexpected in the best of ways.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Lynch, and if his lush Britishness has a viewer thinking about Jeremy Irons, they’ve both done “Lion Kings,” Mr. Irons the original, Mr. Lynch on stage.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The plant employs around 1,000 people and is just one of many sprawling industrial complexes standing out starkly from the lush Appalachian Mountain landscape.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

A fence lined this part of the driveway, and behind the fence was a sprawling, rolling pasture, lush with tall grass and a few leafy trees, where a herd of cows was grazing.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

The sound of his voice went through her, she laughed to break the sob that caught her throat, she looked up, unashamed of the tears trembling on her lushes.

From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston

Some of the lusher scraps—velvets, taffetas, silks, lace—I turned into sumptuous ballgowns for my sister’s proto-Barbie doll.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 2, 2025

Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2023

Hoylake was parched when Woods won in 2006, famously using his driver just once over the four days, while McIlroy triumphed on a lusher course after third-round rainstorms.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2023

To the east of the Great Plains lie the wetter and lusher Eastern Woodlands, extending from the Mississippi River basin to the Atlantic coast.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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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