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His zen meditation on a gorgeous veranda surrounded by water and lily pads brought to a screeching halt, Zion is soon in the water, quietly pleading with a statue of Buddha for the safety of his mother as more gunshots are heard and people are seen running for shelter.
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Dan Heching, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
This image was captured underwater in a cenote (sinkhole) full of lily pads in Mexico.
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
And yet floating among the Convention’s fifty thousand attendees, like lily pads across a pond, were hundreds of Black women dressed in the sorority’s colors: vibrant greens and various shades of pink—hot, rose, pastel.
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Jazmine Hughes, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
The first example, Automate Fée Ondine, came to life in a whimsical scene set with a jeweled fairy resting atop a lily pad.
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Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1814, in the meaning defined above
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“Lily pad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lily%20pad. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
lily pad
noun
: a floating leaf of a water lily
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