as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
nomads have long grazed yaks on the steppes of Mongolia
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Recent Examples of steppe
The find suggest Tarim Basim people learned kefir production techniques from Eurasian steppe populations.
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Once the animals were a crucial piece of the ecosystem in the steppes of Central Asia.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 July 2024
Experts believe that the culture responsible for the burial would have been closely related to the Scythians, a group of nomadic tribes who lived in the Eurasian steppe in antiquity, given the elaborate horse sacrifices found at the tomb.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
In 2018, nuclear genomic sequencing revealed that Botai horses were not the ancestors of domestic horses but of Przewalski’s horse, a wild relative and denizen of the steppe that has never been domesticated, at least in recorded history.
—William Taylor, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
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Ashley J. Dimella Fox News, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2024
Once the animals were a crucial piece of the ecosystem in the steppes of Central Asia.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 4 July 2024
Experts believe that the culture responsible for the burial would have been closely related to the Scythians, a group of nomadic tribes who lived in the Eurasian steppe in antiquity, given the elaborate horse sacrifices found at the tomb.
—Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
In 2018, nuclear genomic sequencing revealed that Botai horses were not the ancestors of domestic horses but of Przewalski’s horse, a wild relative and denizen of the steppe that has never been domesticated, at least in recorded history.
—William Taylor, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steppe
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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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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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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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Before European colonization, it was estimated that Wisconsin was home to more than 2 million acres of grasslands, namely prairie and oak savanna found largely in the southern part of the state.Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Steppe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steppe. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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