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as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
not much grows on the heath besides heather
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as in desert
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops
drove through a vast, empty heath that seemingly had no end
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Noun
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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
Noun
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Camila Alves McConaughey was a desert vision on her recent date with husband Matthew McConaughey.—
Dayna Haffenden,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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The desert city, oasis or hellhole or both, can’t help but bounce back.—
Gary Baum,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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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
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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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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
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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.—
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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
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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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“Heath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heath. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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