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prairie

[prair-ee] / ˈprɛər i /


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ALEDO, Texas—The vault lies inside a grassy hill, next to the rolling Texas prairie.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Muñoz’s program was bookended by dance scores — Ginastera’s “Four Dances from ‘Estancia’” and Copland’s ballet, “Billy the Kid” — that evoke the prairie and the people in it in both viscerally and spiritually.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 2026

Debbie Lyons-Blythe, a cattle rancher from Kansas, said losing the prairie grasses cattle roam on is a problem, but she is also increasingly turning to AI to help better manage her operations.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Throughout our history, major domestic quarrels have erupted over economics: the prairie rebellion of the 1890s, the Progressive era, the New Deal.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

While prairie jackrabbits are capable of amazing bursts of speed—up to and over fifty miles an hour—they are relatively short-winded.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Refinery issues in the Great Lakes and the prairies of Canada fed into significant price increases for those two areas, including the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin.

From MarketWatch May 1, 2026

The Port of Churchill opened nearly a century ago and was primarily used to export grain from the prairies.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2026

The uprooting of prairies across the Great Plains and the Dust Bowl could not have occurred without the massive settler movement triggered by the Homestead Act of 1862.

From Salon Jun. 21, 2025

The tribe plans projects to create healthier stream habitats for fish, and to restore meadows and prairies.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2025

Mars could do nothing to them, for they were bred to plains and prairies as open as the Martian fields.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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