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glade

[glayd] / gleɪd /
NOUN
dell
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Now that she’s an animal, she struggles to learn why the others have departed the glade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

In a woodland glade, in dappled sunshine, Sharron and Glen Markey are arm-in-arm beside the tree they planted in memory of their beloved 17-year-old daughter, Helena, their only child.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

Once a thick forest with rolls stacked five high to the ceiling, it is now a small glade as stock runs low.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

We rumbled up out of the amphitheater just before sunset and pulled into a glade near a Maasai village.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

We walked in silence for a long time until Ayanna slowed, and I realized we were back at the indoor Thicket glade where John Henry and the others had quizzed me earlier.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Across the UK, the ants have declined due to habitat loss, woodland fragmentation and changes in land management that have reduced the sunny woodland edges and glades they rely on.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

What if we let some beavers chop down a few trees, creating little glades of open sky next to our ponds?

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2023

Genetic analyses indicate the pythons that live in the glades are all closely related.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

The Wart considered that the glades must have been made.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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