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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
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.
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Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
And Texas islands, with their shallow bays and seagrass meadows, are home to an extensive amount of wildlife.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2025
Once Glasco’s patch of grass ignited without a problem, firefighters lit other small fires in the meadow.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Keep heading southwest to Valles Caldera National Preserve, a super volcano that erupted 1.2 million years ago, creating a 14-mile-wide circular depression that has evolved into a lush basin full of creeks and meadows.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
And Texas islands, with their shallow bays and seagrass meadows, are home to an extensive amount of wildlife.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2025
Once Glasco’s patch of grass ignited without a problem, firefighters lit other small fires in the meadow.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Keep heading southwest to Valles Caldera National Preserve, a super volcano that erupted 1.2 million years ago, creating a 14-mile-wide circular depression that has evolved into a lush basin full of creeks and meadows.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meadow
Noun
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Most days, these cattle live out docile, carefree lives on the ranch, grazing on tall grass.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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These seemingly innocuous actions can kindle dry grass, potentially triggering a wildfire.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2025
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Herro started slow, finding himself with just two points on 1-of-5 shooting from the field midway through the second quarter.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
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The corn and sugarcane fields of Punjab and Haryana had given way, by the second day, to fields of millet and soybean and lines of orange trees.—
Amitava Kumar,
The New Yorker,
8 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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The fintech industry has seen its fair share of spectacular failures and bizarre plot twists in recent years.—
Stephen Pastis,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Still, the trailer doesn’t give away too much about how the sequel will execute its new plot.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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An ambitious land reclamation project started in the the late 19th century was completed in 1943, the result of which is a large plain of very fertile farm land.—
Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Windy conditions are expected to contribute to fire danger across the urban corridor and plains through the weekend, forecasters said.—
Katie Langford,
The Denver Post,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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At one point, while being choked from behind, the 102-pound, 5-foot-tall 18-year-old managed to fully flip one of her attackers over, with the suspect landing on the concrete ground.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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While driving - Stick to the middle lanes and stay on elevated ground.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Meadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meadow. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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