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ground

[ground] / graʊnd /






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Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland's Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports.

From BBC

This week, my list looks like this: one pound of ground beef, a pound and a half of frozen chicken breasts, a can of black beans and 13 eggs.

From Salon

“These announcements take a step forward so that retailers don’t have to start from ground zero.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Determining offensive capability involves evaluating the quality of a country or organization’s complete arsenal – air, ground, maritime, cyber and space capabilities – and how trained, disciplined, integrated and lethal their forces might be.

From Salon

But when all 82 units burned to the ground last year in the Palisades fire, the two communities had to decide whether and how to rebuild—and the similarities stopped.

From The Wall Street Journal