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also savannah
as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
lions roaming the savanna
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Recent Examples of savanna
Ballooning in the Maasai Mara Kenya’s most popular safari destination, the Maasai Mara National Reserve, comprises nearly 600 square miles of wide-open savanna — an ocean of gold grassland where thousands of animals forage, hunt, play, and rest.
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Liz Wheeler, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2024
Today, the Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a transformation into degraded savanna, which would dramatically accelerate the decline of wildlife and the destabilization of our climate globally.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
For spring 2025, creative director Carlotta Oddi recreated a high-definition image of a savanna, replete with lions, giraffes, elephants and zebras, which was crafted from yarns such as silk and cashmere.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Before European colonization, it was estimated that Wisconsin was home to more than 2 million acres of grasslands, namely prairie and oak savanna found largely in the southern part of the state.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Liz Wheeler, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2024
Today, the Amazon rainforest is on the brink of a transformation into degraded savanna, which would dramatically accelerate the decline of wildlife and the destabilization of our climate globally.
—Rebecca Shaw, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
For spring 2025, creative director Carlotta Oddi recreated a high-definition image of a savanna, replete with lions, giraffes, elephants and zebras, which was crafted from yarns such as silk and cashmere.
—Sandra Salibian, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Before European colonization, it was estimated that Wisconsin was home to more than 2 million acres of grasslands, namely prairie and oak savanna found largely in the southern part of the state.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for savanna
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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Born 43 years ago in the high steppes of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia—a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the Russian border—the Chinese bass Peixin Chen sings in primordial tones that set the whole hall and the listener’s rib cage humming.airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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Smaller explosions peppered the forest and grasslands.C.J. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Suddenly the sea rises and starts to flood the plain.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Mercury’s wrinkle-like features across the left half of the image likely formed after those lava plains solidified and the planet’s interior cooled and contracted, according to an ESA statement.Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Savanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savanna. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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