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lush

[luhsh] / lʌʃ /


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The new album’s lush sonic environment is what you notice first.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Blessed with a tropical climate and rich basalt soil, the lush Central Highlands produces vast quantities of robusta beans, and Vietnam trails only Brazil in coffee output.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Elordi, who hails from Brisbane, is a little more hopeful about the future of the climate in the context of the film - pointing to other parts where you can see lush expanses of greenery.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Their progress down the Amazon was slow, and after paddling less than two miles that day, steep hills covered with lush green trees appeared before them.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

A man on the road who "lushes" and fingers chips does not last long.

From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson

Darlings of New York’s late-1970s music scene, David Byrne and his bandmates started as a defiantly simple act and gradually took on a lusher sound.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

Muddier hues give way to lusher colors as they go deeper into the abandoned streets of Boston.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2023

Hoylake was parched when Woods won in 2006, famously using his driver just once over the four days, while McIlroy triumphed on a lusher course after third-round rainstorms.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2023

Try Hawaiian-style sherbet, a recipe that’s lusher than sorbet but more ethereal than ice cream.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2023

But the crotons were lusher than ever and the variegated bougainvilleas she hadn’t thought would take were heavy with pink blossoms.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

I wanted to break at Indian Garden, one of the lushest and shadiest spots in the canyon and an area once farmed by Native Americans.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2017

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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