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Recent Examples of savanna It’s known mostly for the Namib Desert coming down to the Atlantic Ocean coast, but also for mountains, canyons and savannas. Lea Lane, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025 One of the new exhibits includes a 23-acre African savanna featuring rhinos, giraffes, cheetahs and lions, according to past reporting. Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2025 Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chaparral. Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 In Brazil, huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna have been lost to pastures and fields that produce beef and soybeans. science.org, 26 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for savanna
Recent Examples of Synonyms for savanna
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The land dried up, and the Aral Sea—the great oasis of the Asian steppes—evaporated.
    Henry Duckworth, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Yes, in the market, but not on the steppe, not at a sanatorium.
    Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • In the plains of northern Kazakhstan, swampy forests meet grasslands as rivers cut through the landscape.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Wind gusts up to 35 mph will be possible on the plains through Sunday evening and stronger winds are forecast for Monday afternoon.
    Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Born at a federal site in Florida, he was released in 2021 onto the Alligator River refuge, a swath of coastal plain on North Carolina’s eastern shore.
    Ben Goldfarb, Vox, 14 Mar. 2025

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“Savanna.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/savanna. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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