yard

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When she and her gardener sheet-mulched the front yard with cardboard Amazon boxes she had collected from her neighbors in October, one neighbor joked that it looked ready for Halloween.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

There can be a multiplier effect from supporters who gave only $5 but then displayed a yard sign or bumper sticker and talked to neighbors about their candidate.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

But if “you see men in sweatpants smoking cigarettes, hanging with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding children’s bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

“People were saying, ‘Let’s print out yard signs, T-shirts,’” Webster said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

I’m walking, faster and faster toward the train yard, where off-duty engines loom over rusty railroad ties.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse