prairie
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By the early 1990s, duck populations had exceeded the high of the 1950s; by 2015 almost 50 million waterfowl populated the prairie pothole region of the northern Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT lit this prairie fire in November 2022, the semiconductor ETF is up around 190%.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Once out of the prairie in western Minnesota, the scenery got more conventional, with more towns, as well as larger cities.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
One of Canada's main objectives during this trip is to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola that have hurt farmers in the country's prairie provinces.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
“About the prairie fires? About how sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over?”
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing prairie
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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