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lush

[luhsh] / lʌʃ /


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A lush cactus garden is bordered by Elysian Park, completing Fisher’s vision of the castle in the woods, but done in Southern California’s vernacular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The property—which sits on nearly 2 lush acres—was listed with Jon Grauman of Resident Group and Ernie Carswell of Sotheby’s International Realty.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The countryside is lush, but the homes are sparse.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Hike from ridge to reef Mason’s Travel tour company leads a guided hike through Mahé’s lush Morne Seychellois National Park to secluded Anse Major beach, followed by snorkeling at Cap Ternay Marine Park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The waters along that coast were home to a lush forest of kelp.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" 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

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

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

Spiky as she’d always been, but leaner and lusher at the same time.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

It might be the lushest one on the lot or it might be the scrawny one sitting mostly alone on a shelf.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021

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

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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