as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
vaqueros driving their herd of cattle across the campo
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Recent Examples of campo
Some readers may note that three of the Marte daughters were born in the 1950s during the 30-year dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, yet there is no specific reference to his tyranny, his notorious preying on campo girls or the measures families took to protect them.
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Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
The campo, which forms part of the 150,000-hectare Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, is best accessed via cable car.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
Vasquez is the youngest artist in the show, and his paintings show the joy of lively gatherings in the campo (meaning rural areas or the countryside in Spanish-speaking countries and within the Latinx diaspora).
—CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
Like many Puerto Ricans born in the campo (boondocks) or born before the 1950s, birth dates and timelines are a blurred suggestion.
—Illyanna Maisonet, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
The Cordillera Blanca, a snowy mountain range in northern Peru, has the ayudantes de campo, or field helpers, in Spanish.
—Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Also involved have been the groups representing descendants and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, which runs the hospital built atop a 19th-century campo santo.
—Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2017
Patricia Engel, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
The campo, which forms part of the 150,000-hectare Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, is best accessed via cable car.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
Vasquez is the youngest artist in the show, and his paintings show the joy of lively gatherings in the campo (meaning rural areas or the countryside in Spanish-speaking countries and within the Latinx diaspora).
—CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
Like many Puerto Ricans born in the campo (boondocks) or born before the 1950s, birth dates and timelines are a blurred suggestion.
—Illyanna Maisonet, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
The Cordillera Blanca, a snowy mountain range in northern Peru, has the ayudantes de campo, or field helpers, in Spanish.
—Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
Also involved have been the groups representing descendants and the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, which runs the hospital built atop a 19th-century campo santo.
—Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campo
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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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Some of the bones may date to a period 3800 to 3500 years ago, around the time that Yamnaya pastoralists from the steppes, once called Aryans, are thought to have migrated to India.ByVaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 4 Nov. 2024
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An invasive species called Hedge Parsley has made its way to Austin from the steppes of Asia, where the plant is native.Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 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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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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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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“Campo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campo. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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