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a usually flat area of land that is covered with tall grass
The sanctuary contains several large meadows that are home to a variety of wildlife.
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Recent Examples of meadow
If that nature trail isn’t quiet enough for you, hike deeper into the Spruce Knob-Seneca Creek Backcountry, where 60 miles of trail explores meadows, streams, and hardwood forests.
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Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
The peaceful scene of pandas resting in a meadow is quickly disturbed by Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Sebastian Hansen hurtling to the ground at full speed with a bucket of video-game accurate water, and from there, all kinds of madness ensues.
—Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article A meadow on the Barona reservation overgrown with grass and invasive weeds hadn’t burned for decades.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
With the technology, anyone can generate videos — like a herd of woolly mammoths trotting through a snowy meadow — simply by typing a sentence into a box on a computer screen.
—Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Graham Averill, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
The peaceful scene of pandas resting in a meadow is quickly disturbed by Jack Black, Jason Momoa, and Sebastian Hansen hurtling to the ground at full speed with a bucket of video-game accurate water, and from there, all kinds of madness ensues.
—Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Listen to this article A meadow on the Barona reservation overgrown with grass and invasive weeds hadn’t burned for decades.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
With the technology, anyone can generate videos — like a herd of woolly mammoths trotting through a snowy meadow — simply by typing a sentence into a box on a computer screen.
—Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meadow
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The weather service is pretty specific: − Ten-hour fuels of 8% or less, describing how much water is held by small vegetation such as grass, leaves and mulch that take only about 10 hours to respond to changes in dry versus wet conditions.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2025
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Suzuka is one of the most demanding tracks on the calendar, punishing even the most minor mistakes with its high-speed corners and beckoning grass and gravel.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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As open fields and forests are being paved over, the natural life cycle of fireflies is disrupted as these luminescent beetles are displaced.—
Patrick Connolly,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Now teams that miss out on the NCAA tournament on selection Sunday are added to the 32-team NIT field, which uses home court sites until the semifinal and final rounds.—
Jack Magruder,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Its lush grasslands and graphics are beautiful to look at, but feudal Japan’s landscapes can appear homogeneous.—
George Yang,
Rolling Stone,
18 Mar. 2025
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In the plains of northern Kazakhstan, swampy forests meet grasslands as rivers cut through the landscape.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2025
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Things haven't reached the point where pilots are being put out to pasture, but the military advantages of increasingly sophisticated autonomous aircraft are becoming more apparent as time passes.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
10 Mar. 2025
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Cricket might be a British Commonwealth sport, evoking staid images of players in all whites with bat and ball in hand in green pastures, but it is entirely ruled by India with an iron fist.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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His story of being put on a Kremlin kill list after exposing the Kremlin plot to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is told in Antidote, a documentary directed by James Jones that also premiered at CPH:DOX.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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Throughout the new Max reality series, archival clips from the siblings' past are intertwined in the episodes — but the plot primarily centers on their modern-day lives, highlighting their careers as pro boxers and wrestlers.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Wind gusts up to 35 mph will be possible on the plains through Sunday evening and stronger winds are forecast for Monday afternoon.—
Lauren Penington,
The Denver Post,
16 Mar. 2025
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Born at a federal site in Florida, he was released in 2021 onto the Alligator River refuge, a swath of coastal plain on North Carolina’s eastern shore.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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The acquisition expands the Lakewood Forest Preserve, the largest in the county with more than 2,900 acres of trails, woodlands, prairies, wetlands and lakes according to a county press release.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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In revealing how the prairie was consumed by colonization and agricultural practices time has proven detrimental, Smarsh’s piece is equal parts fascinating history and ecology lesson.—
Longreads,
Longreads,
19 Dec. 2024
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But Ukraine has lost ground there and the region was recently visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first time he's been there since Ukraine invaded in August last year.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Just 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed (7 grams) contains about 1.2 grams of protein and 1.9 grams of fiber.22 11.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Meadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meadow. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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