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also savannah
as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
lions roaming the savanna
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Recent Examples of savanna
But the eastern shores of Lady Bird Lake also harbor small savanna ecosystems.
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Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
Walking along the land's two-mile path, miniature ecosystems mimicking the state's tallgrass prairies, wetlands, savannas and more are revealed.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
Tigers can be found in a diverse range of habitats, from tropical rainforests to savannas, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Visitors can wander through a tropical rainforest and savanna grasslands, and even smell an ocean complete with coral reef.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
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Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
Walking along the land's two-mile path, miniature ecosystems mimicking the state's tallgrass prairies, wetlands, savannas and more are revealed.
—Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024
Tigers can be found in a diverse range of habitats, from tropical rainforests to savannas, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
—Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
Visitors can wander through a tropical rainforest and savanna grasslands, and even smell an ocean complete with coral reef.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for savanna
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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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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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During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
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By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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The lake was a white plain with patches of dark timber on the far shore.Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
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What a 1,000-mile railway across the Yucatán jungle says about Mexico’s outgoing president Sept. 29, 2024 The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain.Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Savanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savanna. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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