greenery
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At first glance, the site is an unremarkable cluster of tall trees wrapped in thick greenery.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Those openings will arrive as Cava tries to add more greenery, warmer lighting and softer seats to its locations, in an effort to bring in more consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"One approach is to set the building back from the street and... to arrange greenery so that, at eye level, its presence doesn't feel so overwhelming," Jouzuka told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
“There are concrete houses and structures taking the place of greenery and that’s also adding heat to the atmosphere,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In the very heart of the city was a great swath of greenery.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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At home they had had some lilac bushes and a row of peonies; here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.
From Samuel the Seeker by Upton Sinclair
Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.
From What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge
Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.
From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis