as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
the backyard's leafy bushes look nice, but have a tendency to attract deer
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Recent Examples of leafy
The residence is northwest of downtown along a leafy, semi-industrial dead-end road across from a county maintenance facility and an manufacturing office building.
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Karoline Leonard, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
All the ingredients are pre-selected and the sizzling bowl of broth came studded with mushrooms, beef and leafy greens.
—Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
Sheth says the findings have led him to tweak some of his own habits — he's swapped sugary desserts for fruit at some meals, and added more leafy greens to his diet.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Focus on magnesium-rich foods like leafy green vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 23 Dec. 2024
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Karoline Leonard, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2025
All the ingredients are pre-selected and the sizzling bowl of broth came studded with mushrooms, beef and leafy greens.
—Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
Sheth says the findings have led him to tweak some of his own habits — he's swapped sugary desserts for fruit at some meals, and added more leafy greens to his diet.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
Focus on magnesium-rich foods like leafy green vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leafy
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The new direction from Congress has the potential to transform the river that sustains Oregon’s famously lush Willamette Valley.Tony Schick, ProPublica, 16 Jan. 2025
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Swiss cheese vine’s length and dramatic foliage bring lush maximalism to any room.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
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Each group is coded by a color to indicate difficulty: yellow for the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple for more challenging sets.John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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For example, previous mockups using the colors red, yellow and green to call out different levels did not make a statistically significant difference in helping people interpret the box.Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2025
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Littler began playing darts as a tiny boy and soon started beating grown men at the game.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 4 Jan. 2025
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Expand All In March 2012, a mother came to the Key Biscayne Police Department with her 14-year-old daughter, who had been sent steamy love letters from a grown man — Oscar Olea, her 26-year-old gymnastics coach.Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Arnold told the Statesman by phone that the cottages are more dense than other single-family homes and sit on smaller lots, keeping costs down for builders and future residents alike.Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 12 Jan. 2025
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There’s also the simple fact that much of the densest forest is on terrain so steep that loggers’ machines couldn’t even access it.Elizabeth Miller, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Leafy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leafy. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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