as in steppe
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
you can see for miles in every direction on the prairie
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Recent Examples of prairie
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.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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
Ever since a devastating tornado encounter, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gave up chasing storms across the Oklahoma prairie to safely study them on screens in New York City.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Smarsh goes back to glacial retreat to outline the history of the prairie and its importance as a vast ecosystem, at one time an abundant home for plants and wildlife alike.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Sep. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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
Ever since a devastating tornado encounter, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gave up chasing storms across the Oklahoma prairie to safely study them on screens in New York City.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
Smarsh goes back to glacial retreat to outline the history of the prairie and its importance as a vast ecosystem, at one time an abundant home for plants and wildlife alike.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
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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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Kettles, moraines, eskers, drumlins, wetlands, hanging valleys, outwash plains: Across, down, and up Wisconsin, you crisscross these glacial vestiges, repeated in random bursts like a particularly chaotic and tremendous platter of hotdish.Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2024
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The high-wind warning is in place for the Rocky Mountain Front and adjacent foothills and plains, as well as eastern Glacier, western Toole and central Pondera counties.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 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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Use it for fresh buds or a few pampas stems to liven up your living room or sleeping space.Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2023
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Shop vibrant blooms like coral daisies, autumn sunflowers and golden yarrow, plus grass stems like pampas, wheat and bunny tails.Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
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They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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By 2050, the entire region could be irreversibly on the path to becoming a savanna.Nemonte Nenquimo, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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The Stone Mountain Loop Trail takes you on a moderately challenging journey past cascading waterfalls, scenic meadows and the park’s iconic granite dome.Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Jan. 2025
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Helmed by renowned chef Jean Sulpice, Pere Bice uses the bounty of the lake and its surrounding mountains and meadows to create a menu that employs local meats and produce, along with wild herbs, flowers, and plants.Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
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These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began.Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
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The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization.Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023
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“Prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prairie. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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