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as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
fields green with meadow grass
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as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity
a new pitcher who's pretty green, even by rookie standards
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as in naive
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment
in spite of her age, she's still green enough to be hoodwinked by fast-talking scammers
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as in vegetation
green leaves or plants
the lonely soldier dreamt of the fields of green that he had wandered in as a youth
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as in money
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
I need to save up some green before I can afford that cruise
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Recent Examples of green
Vox Staff, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024
This recipe stars shredded chicken, and is then complemented by Northern beans, green enchilada sauce, and a poblano chile.
—Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
Increasing your intake of alkalizing foods, such as beans, berries, leafy greens, and dark chocolate, while decreasing acid-forming foods, such as red meat and refined grains, can protect against several health conditions and help your body maintain its acid-base balance.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Oct. 2024
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Insects hummed from the grasses, green lizards slept in the trees, and resting water birds, spooked by our approaching footsteps, squawked and flew away.
—Vox Staff, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024
This recipe stars shredded chicken, and is then complemented by Northern beans, green enchilada sauce, and a poblano chile.
—Krissy Tiglias, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
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Now, a research team has revealed the unique biological mechanism behind the birds’ bright reds, yellows, and greens.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
Increasing your intake of alkalizing foods, such as beans, berries, leafy greens, and dark chocolate, while decreasing acid-forming foods, such as red meat and refined grains, can protect against several health conditions and help your body maintain its acid-base balance.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 30 Oct. 2024
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Much of Little Brother’s songs are crafted by the use of samples, but Glasper’s band added a lush, sultry expansiveness to their catalog.William E. Ketchum III, VIBE.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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He’s best associated with the gleaming, lush sound of jazz and pop in the ’70s and ’80s, as most famously heard on Michael Jackson’s albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Dimon went on to say that the United States needed to avoid being naive and allowing larger global events to play out without any intervention.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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In a bloody good mix of horror comedy and murder mystery, Sam Richardson plays a naive but good-hearted forest ranger new to a small Vermont town out to catch a killer (who may or may not be a werewolf) among the various kooky residents. 55.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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Zink takes the time to camouflage, paying attention to every detail, grassing the chicken-wire frame of his boat blind with natural vegetation.Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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Unlike typical droughts, which can develop over extended periods, flash droughts emerge due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, intense sunlight, and strong winds, which speed up the drying of soils and vegetation.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Even if Vice President Kamala Harris had won, much of that money would have continued to flow.CNN.com, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Republicans have even spent some money attacking the Libertarian candidate, Donald Rainwater, in recent weeks.Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
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At the same time, her grown child is not wrong for wanting answers today.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Oct. 2024
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Azazel Jacobs’s His Three Daughters begins with a series of dense, almost theatrical monologues, delivered by the three grown children of a dying man.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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Some growers also pinch plants back in September to create an even crown and remove immature stem segments.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads By 1 Point In Two Latest Surveys Unfortunately, these metrics do not work well for an immature, emerging business.Andrew Binns, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Both measures required a simple majority for passage.Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Not toward Settembrini’s international republic of letters, and not back toward his simple bourgeois life down in the flatlands.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Every year, thousands flock to the Catskills, New York to bask in the beauty of the fall foliage.Anna Haines, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The images produced by the SAR satellites can show objects under cover or foliage, unlike optical satellites, although hiding from eyes in the sky has always been a concern, Suess said.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Green.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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