paradise

As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

School wasn’t exactly paradise for me back in the day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Moyin, 22, is a political economy student, from Essex, who balances his studies with athletics and enjoys using flavours inspired by his Nigerian heritage, including grains of paradise and groundnuts.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

From Leonardo DiCaprio’s 104-acre escape off the coast of Belize to Johnny Depp’s idyllic Bahamian getaway, these stars have spent millions securing their own slices of paradise.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

In the Field Guide to African Birds left by our fowl-minded patron Brother Fowles, my bird is called the paradise flycatcher.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“Sinkholes are paradises for many rare and endangered plant species. We are continuing to make new discoveries.”

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

Wildfires and successive heat waves transformed their summer paradises into ghoulish hellscapes.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023

County residents who’ve taken out their lawns and transformed their yards into fragrant, leafy, low-water paradises — often with a DIY approach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

“Of course, paradises don’t last,” the unapologetic and rare local conservative mused.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari