champaign

as in plain
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country after days of trudging through dense forest, the explorers came upon a vast champaign

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Noun
  • Leave a comment View Comments The formations have also provided insight into one of the biggest mysteries on Mars — why the planet has a marked boundary between the soaring highlands of its southern hemisphere and shallow plains in the northern hemisphere.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
  • That feature is Athabasca Valles, a system of valleys carved into volcanic plains on Mars.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 24 Jan. 2025
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  • Shh—hear the mountains murmur? Peripatetic prairies slowly creep across the globe.
    Daniel Galef, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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  • On the backs of horses, human civilization had grown, from the steppes of Asia to Greece, Rome, and Europe.
    Caroline Winterer / Made by History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
  • 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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  • The area around it is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats and more, where falcons, hawks, ravens, gulls and songbirds live.
    Robert A. Kopack, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The species is widespread across Ethiopia and known to inhabit woodlands and grasslands.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
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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
  • 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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“Champaign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/champaign. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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