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Recent Examples of sward
The soft Smyrna rug in the hall yields to the tread like a mossy sward, while a circular art glass window fills the hall with a pleasant subdued light.
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Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2019
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The sparks hit dry grass and set off a blaze that, in combination with another, burned more than six hundred square miles across four counties and lasted a hundred and sixty-one days.Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2025
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The drone took a tumble and fell about fifteen feet onto soft grass, but the propeller guards did their job, and there was no damage to the aircraft.PCMAG, PCMAG, 14 Jan. 2025
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For most of its existence, there were citrus groves and cutting gardens, greenhouses and broad lawns.Miami Herasld Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025
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The ballpark will be one of the smallest in the big leagues, with just 10,000 permanent seats and a 14,000-person capacity thanks to a lawn area beyond the right field wall.Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025
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Gwynns Falls and Leakin parks (there’s a seamless connection between these two greenswards) stymied the highway builders 50-plus years ago.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
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The usually pristine greensward at Fenway has patches of sod throughout the outfield, particularly in right field, after the recent Pink and Fall Out Boy concerts.Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
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Traditionally, black-eyed peas and greens are eaten on New Year's Day — preferably as the first meal of the year.Brandi D. Addison, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
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On Monday, Nvidia was the sole stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average to finish in the green, rising about 0.4%.Sean Conlon, CNBC, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Sward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sward. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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