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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
Katie Vogel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Footage of the kangaroo loose in the Quebec field, which the Galahad SPCA shared on social media, shows the furry marsupial's body poking out above tall, green grass.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
John Towfighi, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
The painting was part of an exhibition called Eden, which closed June 6, and included portraits of Black people painted in green.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026
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Adjective
Workers used a swimming pool-type vacuum cleaner to suck up algae from the bottom, leaving behind clean patches of American Flag Blue paint adjacent to enormous swaths of green algae in a pattern familiar to anyone who has ever vacuumed a carpet before.
—Katie Vogel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Footage of the kangaroo loose in the Quebec field, which the Galahad SPCA shared on social media, shows the furry marsupial's body poking out above tall, green grass.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
Noun
That means double the gains on a day in the green, but double the losses on a day in the red.
—John Towfighi, CNN Money, 15 June 2026
The painting was part of an exhibition called Eden, which closed June 6, and included portraits of Black people painted in green.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for green
Adjective
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When not blooming, the lush green leaves step in to provide respite from the desert sun.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
15 June 2026
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Blue skies extended to the horizon, and a small colony of tents, camper vans and motorhomes sprawled out across the lush alfalfa fields.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
Adjective
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At $18 or even $15 per hour, many companies don’t see value in hiring inexperienced teens who require extensive training to interact with customers, let alone achieve some measure of productivity.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Lagway’s depature after 19 starts leaves the Gators to choose between two talented, yet inexperienced options with just one combined start — by Philo against Gardner-Webb in 2025.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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Southgate’s confident assertion that the tide of history was turning against bigotry now looks utopian, or even naïve.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
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Season 2 follows two couples on a path of mutual destruction, one older and jaded and one young and naive.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
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The crews are working to create a network of vegetation-free pathways, called fuel breaks, that can slow fires and give firefighters strategic access to wildlands to combat blazes.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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For the last 15 years, Dominion Water and Sanitation has studied rainfall, runoff, soil infiltration and vegetation use in Sterling Gulch.—
Olivia Young,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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But Boston has not wisely or efficiently reinvested that money into the team, with the exception of the offseason trade for Willson Contreras to play first base.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The family is now trying to raise money on the fundraising site GoFundMe to bring justice to Jameson and pay for cremation fees.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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All of that hits me so much differently as a grown woman and as a mom.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2026
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There’s the artist that’s for the kids, who appealed to everyone, and the other that was more grown, more adventurous.—
Keith Murphy,
VIBE.com,
7 June 2026
Adjective
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The first thing a stressed cucumber plant will do is drop blossoms and immature fruit, says Gorlin-Crenshaw.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
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The repetition accounts for immature pollen grains and mediates weather challenges by offering multiple opportunities for the pollen to transfer to the stigma.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2026
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Armando Chavez, owner of local business NorCal Siders, was brought in for a simple roof patch-up but left with a big idea.—
Kayla Moeller,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
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The cause can be something as simple as a lack of water or more complex, like fungal wilt diseases, tomato wilt viruses, walnut toxicity, or boring insects.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
17 June 2026
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“Green.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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