as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
a report on the arctic tundra of Alaska and the polar bears that inhabit that vast, frozen plain
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Recent Examples of tundra
Expect unspoiled tundra sprinkled with musk oxen and reindeer on this roughly ten-day trek.
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Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
Flying over the tundra, lights flickering from distant villages, things were finally good.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth.
—Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
But two more tundras descended and the other boat dropped them both.
—Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
Flying over the tundra, lights flickering from distant villages, things were finally good.
—Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
Shards of caribou bones and antlers lie on the tundra as ghostly business cards of a bygone migration, greened with mold, and minutely chiseled and mined for calcium by tiny vole teeth.
—Jon Waterman, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
But two more tundras descended and the other boat dropped them both.
—Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tundra
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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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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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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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Making debuts on the park’s savanna are Corra, a baby elephant; Elijah, an okapi; and three lions named Mshango, Zahara and Neema. • At Epcot, a manatee named Lou and three male dolphins were relocated from The Seas With Nemo & Friends attraction.Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
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Ballooning in the Maasai Mara Kenya’s most popular safari destination, the Maasai Mara National Reserve, comprises nearly 600 square miles of wide-open savanna — an ocean of gold grassland where thousands of animals forage, hunt, play, and rest.Liz Wheeler, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2024
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“Tundra.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tundra. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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