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a usually flat area of land that is covered with tall grass
The sanctuary contains several large meadows that are home to a variety of wildlife.
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Recent Examples of meadow
Helmed by renowned chef Jean Sulpice, Pere Bice uses the bounty of the lake and its surrounding mountains and meadows to create a menu that employs local meats and produce, along with wild herbs, flowers, and plants.
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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
This winter, Cog Railway trains terminate at the alpine meadow marvel that is Waumbek Station.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
The brothers were enjoying the snow in some meadows in Logan Canyon.
—Bita Ryan, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The 708-acre property, 20 minutes from downtown, has terraces, gardens, a cabin, a creek, oak trees, flower meadows, and mountain views.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2024
This winter, Cog Railway trains terminate at the alpine meadow marvel that is Waumbek Station.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg Fox News, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
The brothers were enjoying the snow in some meadows in Logan Canyon.
—Bita Ryan, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The 708-acre property, 20 minutes from downtown, has terraces, gardens, a cabin, a creek, oak trees, flower meadows, and mountain views.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for meadow
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Their conflict has killed more than 28,000 people, forced millions to flee their homes and left some families eating grass in a desperate attempt to survive as famine sweeps parts of the country.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2025
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Atwater and his son were the last caretakers of the lot, mowing the grass and making sure the property taxes were paid.—
Ben Wieder,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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Murray is averaging a career-low 12.1 points per game while shooting career lows of 42.4% from the field and 32.4% from 3-point range.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacramento Bee,
19 Jan. 2025
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Grill went 7-for-10 from the field (3-of-5 from 3).—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
19 Jan. 2025
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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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Read Next National One-eyed horse escapes pasture and falls through frozen CO pond.—
Jennifer Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
19 Jan. 2025
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The open fields doctrine has long aggravated farmers and ranchers, who are unable to keep law enforcement from snooping on their livestock, crops and pasture.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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In the 1970s, Lowery and his wife bought a 21-acre plot surrounded by Anson County farmland 60 miles south of Charlotte.—
Ames Alexander,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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In at least one case, the U.S. intelligence helped thwart an IS plot to attack a religious shrine outside Damascus earlier this month, according to the officials.—
Warren P. Strobel,
arkansasonline.com,
26 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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Shh—hear the mountains murmur? Peripatetic prairies slowly creep across the globe.—
Daniel Galef,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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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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With the lubricated ground shifting, at times, nine to 12 inches a week, utility companies shut off electricity, gas and internet for hundreds of homes.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Hegseth has also said on Shawn Ryan's show that women should not be allowed in ground combat units.—
Tom Bowman,
NPR,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Meadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meadow. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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