lush
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The new album’s lush sonic environment is what you notice first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The property is “surrounded by lush gardens and features a sparkling pool and spa, creating an idyllic setting for both entertaining and everyday living.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Blessed with a tropical climate and rich basalt soil, the lush Central Highlands produces vast quantities of robusta beans, and Vietnam trails only Brazil in coffee output.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
She looked up from the lush green ad.m. leaves she was washing in a pan for the soup.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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I suspect Nick will finally come out of the closet, and those East Egg lushes will reappear in the 1420s, the 1720s and space.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2020
There's a late-night grilled cheese place just a few blocks down the street from my apartment up here in Canada, one frequented by the local students and lushes on weekend evenings.
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2016
If we ever launch a space capsule documenting the drinking traditions of Earth for the benefit of extraterrestrial lushes, we should choose this one to represent the bloody mary.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2014
Titans is a retread, clogged with louche lushes in tuxes and gowns, its old-money family saga as tired as the Williams bloodline.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The sound of his voice went through her, she laughed to break the sob that caught her throat, she looked up, unashamed of the tears trembling on her lushes.
From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston
Some of the lusher scraps—velvets, taffetas, silks, lace—I turned into sumptuous ballgowns for my sister’s proto-Barbie doll.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
Hoylake was parched when Woods won in 2006, famously using his driver just once over the four days, while McIlroy triumphed on a lusher course after third-round rainstorms.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2023
To the east of the Great Plains lie the wetter and lusher Eastern Woodlands, extending from the Mississippi River basin to the Atlantic coast.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Spiky as she’d always been, but leaner and lusher at the same time.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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Robin Pecknold’s exquisite lockdown tunes pining for nature on 2020’s “Shore” should sound right at home in one of the Seattle area’s lushest venues — if you can afford it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
It might be the lushest one on the lot or it might be the scrawny one sitting mostly alone on a shelf.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
But her solo material has tended towards Americana, and On the Line is her lushest, most melodic record to date.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2019
We had a picnic on a highway median in California one time—it seemed like a park to us—and it was the lushest grass I had ever seen.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2017
He could hop onto it and trek right on back to the RV, which, relative to his present surroundings, is the world’s lushest palace full of what Dad would call “first-world luxuries.”
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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