green
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Phyllis Crum, 67 years old, didn’t find out until she unwrapped a green Hallmark Christmas sweatshirt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
By Wednesday morning, Wall Street was showing signs of a green one.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
On Tuesday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that it had given the green light for equity perpetual futures contracts to begin trading in the U.S. for the first time.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
The lobby floor is white, the furniture supplying pops of blue, green and red.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
All around stood the dark, listening trees: trees that stayed green all winter, that never slept.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Bananas, potatoes, beans, leafy greens, and yogurt are examples of foods that can help increase potassium intake.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Adam Rigg’s cemetery set—trees, graves, a crypt—is enhanced by the purples and greens of lighting co-designers Yi Zhao and Stacey Derosier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The Englishwoman still could not buy a birdie putt on the slow greens but she never gave her opponent a sniff.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fiel, vice president of brand and creative at the AI-native startup Newton, loves reinventions of utilitarian clothing, favoring functional pieces in deep greens and blacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
A hologram of neon greens, reds, and yellows explodes from the puck, making my eyes ache.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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"For centuries, Oxford Street has reinvented itself, adapting to changing times and helping shape British culture along the way," he added, saying the move would "revitalise" the road and make the capital "greener".
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
In May, Orbital raised $50 million to develop its new product: cooling systems that use more efficient, greener alternatives to the chemical cooling agents used in some data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
"I will continue to vehemently oppose these plans as I seek to build a fairer, safer, greener, more prosperous London for everyone."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
They also say starting production would not protect energy security and that transitioning sooner to greener technologies would be better for supporting jobs.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Sure, the water crisis is bad, but not every one of these people could possibly believe it’s so bad that they’d need to leave for greener pastures.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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It ranges from the greenest to the dirtiest, from established technologies to speculative ones, and even includes companies that play tangential roles in the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
That means the greenest new building is one that’s in the center of town.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2025
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
The organising committee of Paris 2024 has vowed to make it the greenest Games in Olympic history, with half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
I stared about, openmouthed, like the greenest plowboy.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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The persistent heat will dry out vegetation and increase the chance of fires in grass-dominated areas that greened up after the plentiful rains this winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Trees with access to shallow water tables "greened up" during drought, the researchers found, while trees over deeper water tables experienced more foliage browning and tree death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
Often, that's good news—the events have ended droughts, refilled reservoirs, and greened rolling hills.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
At Fort Young, restorations have strengthened and greened the property, and eco-certification efforts began in earnest this year.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Since the onset of the greening crisis, soaring prices for not-from-concentrate juice and competition from other beverages—particularly at breakfast—have driven down orange-juice consumption by more than half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
All of these took a toll on the industry, but none of them proved as ruinous as citrus greening, a disease that clogs trees’ vascular systems, choking off water and nutrients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The track is one piece of a major greening project at the Westlake school that students, teachers and community leaders celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
So experts said countries across the region should further insulate energy systems against more frequent disruptive weather events by diversifying and greening their grids.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Rations among the Army were reduced to salt-pork, now rank with flies and greening.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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