lush
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The steep slopes and lush valleys below the Himalayan mountain range — home to many of the world’s highest peaks and remaining glaciers — are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The property includes 300 feet of frontage and lush landscaping.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Lynch, and if his lush Britishness has a viewer thinking about Jeremy Irons, they’ve both done “Lion Kings,” Mr. Irons the original, Mr. Lynch on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The plant employs around 1,000 people and is just one of many sprawling industrial complexes standing out starkly from the lush Appalachian Mountain landscape.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The bottom, thick, rough trunk, like an elephant’s leg pulled to the right of the driveway, the top, green and lush, rolled to the left.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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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
This much lusher treatment follows the trend of celebrities and public figures taking their messages straight to the public, using the language of social media rather than conventional news or an interview.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 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
The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
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
It had been harder watching a raft of former conference brothers — Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Boston College, West Virginia, Rutgers, Louisville — gain acceptance to the lushest greenery.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2016
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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