prairie
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Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT lit this prairie fire in November 2022, the semiconductor ETF is up around 190%.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
But when you spend 12 hours seeing nothing but prairie with not a person, car or structure in sight, you realize what an amazing country we all live in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The roof needed to be replaced to withstand heavy snow, hard rain and the golf-ball-sized hail of prairie thunderstorms.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
During strong westerly winds, especially in years with a wet spring and hot, dry fall, swarms of thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—roll freely over the prairie landscape, halting only where housing developments stand in their way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
I had my eye on a piece of soft blue chambray at Mr. Dye’s store for the sky and I’d been saving scraps of brown gingham for the prairie.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Vocabulary lists containing prairie
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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The United States
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