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as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
across the lea rolls a lonely wagon
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Recent Examples of lea
Named for the city’s pre-1925 moniker, the lea was spared from possible development in 2003 by local conservation group Siskiyou Land Trust.
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Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
Brian Coyne, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2019
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Dead Outlaw David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses’s musical unspools with the homey charm of broadcast heard on a fuzzy radio transmission on a winter night in the prairie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Northeast does not have the huge prairies conducive for wind farms or the easily accessible geothermal energy that exists in parts of the West Coast.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2024
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They were stunned to discover that the creatures regularly traveled hundreds of miles — likely headed for warmer pastures with more abundant plants and glacial meltwater, says Ludovic Landry-Ducharme, a PhD student at the University of Quebec at Rimouski who is continuing the research.Christine Peterson, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
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Employees eyeing greener pastures could put Amazon at risk of losing some of its most experienced employees.Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2024
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But anyone who chooses to live in the fire plain — as with a flood plain or seashore — must accept a certain small risk of, well, nature being natural.Josh Schlossberg, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024
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Luxurious amenities like a dedicated cinema room, wine cellar and infinity pool overlooking the plains are all in place for visitors to enjoy, while on-staff butlers, chefs and wildlife guides are all at-the-ready to ensure that no need goes unmet.Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Here in rural Somalia, where about 50% of the people depend on animals for their livelihoods, the locusts are eating the pasturage.NBC News, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
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Except for some lands offering timber or pasturage, the far greater part of the land west of the line was by itself essentially not farmable.johnforristerross, Longreads, 2 July 2018
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The brothers were enjoying the snow in some meadows in Logan Canyon.Bita Ryan, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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This winter, Cog Railway trains terminate at the alpine meadow marvel that is Waumbek Station.Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
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There are only 18 quarterbacks who've finished in their completion percentage range.Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 28 Dec. 2024
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Indigo River Tiny Homes The Sandy tiny house is part of Indigo River Tiny Homes' Bunkhouse range and starts at US$161,000.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 27 Dec. 2024
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For two teams and fanbases who have barked at and about each other all season long, the fence between yards is finally down.J.J. Bailey, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
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The number of quarterbacks who've finished at 6.7 yards per attempt is bigger, but still not that big at just 171 passers in league history.Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 28 Dec. 2024
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Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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But that factor, so present for so long in world history, disappeared first with Czar’s troops overrunning the steppes of Central Asia in the late 1700s.Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Lea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lea. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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