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They moved down to Frisco, Texas, and adopted the name Good Good—the phrase two golfers use on the green to give each other gimme putts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
But if Rocha expected a green light from Sheinbaum, he failed to get one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
An adult purple gallinule has a bright purple and green body with a pale blue marking that resembles a shield above its red and yellow bill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Makers of Comté cheese in the Jura mountains will be able to replace the local green maize they usually give to their cattle with maize from elsewhere.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It’s a 48-piecer, with the Phillies’ fluffy green mascot—the Phanatic—swinging a baseball bat.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Nitrate is found naturally in many vegetables, especially beetroot and leafy greens such as spinach, rocket, and lettuce.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Another builds rainbow-colored bowls overflowing with blackened chicken, rice, leafy greens, fresh vegetables and other thoughtfully placed garnishes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Instead of cooking the pasta separately, Meghan puts it directly on top of tomatoes with some lemon zest and greens, then pours boiling water over the whole mixture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Growing venture capital–backed consumer brands, like Blank Street Coffee and dentist office Tend, traded in neons for pastel greens.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
He and Mama were very independent on the farm, raising just about everything our family needed to eat: beans, greens, peas, potatoes, corn, wheat, apples, grapes.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Until recently, it has been a premium product, a greener alternative to the fish meal that underpins the $300 billion-plus aquaculture industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
A side-by-side comparison shows how much greener the fairways appeared in summer 2025 compared with this year.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But that focus on greener pastures is as persistent as the apparent blood feud between Texas and Tennessee.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
Participants who recycled, used reusable cups and containers, took public transportation, ate greener diets, or cycled to work were no less likely to support wider climate policies and collective action.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Any more than that and they’d be greener than Edgar Allan Toad, Seven explained.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Zookeepers will need to coax every bird, reptile, fish and mammal - from the largest rodents in the world to the greenest katydids - to the weighing scale.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It ranges from the greenest to the dirtiest, from established technologies to speculative ones, and even includes companies that play tangential roles in the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Rather, it reflects a 21st-century understanding of the environmental movement, one that recognizes that an existing neighborhood is the greenest place for housing to be built.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2025
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
I stared about, openmouthed, like the greenest plowboy.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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Trees with access to shallow water tables "greened up" during drought, the researchers found, while trees over deeper water tables experienced more foliage browning and tree death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
Often, that's good news—the events have ended droughts, refilled reservoirs, and greened rolling hills.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 25, 2024
And all the snowmelt has brilliantly greened what’s often a dry, brown tinder box by this time of year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
At Fort Young, restorations have strengthened and greened the property, and eco-certification efforts began in earnest this year.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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So experts said countries across the region should further insulate energy systems against more frequent disruptive weather events by diversifying and greening their grids.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Her priorities have included early education expansion, school greening improvements, literacy through phonics training, protecting immigrant students and focusing more budget resources on the highest-need schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Dantzler knew citrus greening as well as anyone.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
It wasn’t just greening that had to be worried about.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Every May brings Atomic Bomb Awareness Month to Camillo Junior High, right after the greening grass and the yellowing forsythia.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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