- plural of ground.
grounds
Example Sentences
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But on Monday, a federal district court judge in Massachusetts postponed the effective date on the grounds that—and I am paraphrasing here—the rule is mind-bendingly stupid and would create a needless, self-inflicted economic catastrophe.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Locals have volunteered to scour for rare bats in the woods in the hope of blocking the development on environmental grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Surveys conducted in the 1960s, which were primarily designed to locate productive fishing grounds, identified what appeared to be a deep-water coral reef.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Both projects had already been given the go-ahead under the previous Conservative government but were successfully challenged in the Scottish courts on environmental grounds.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The flat stoicism of her earlier utterances disappears and Mrs. Dannenberg grounds her forehead into the palm of her hand.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
