prairie

The new sound system and eager performances made the prairie feel close.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

Laura Parker, a lawyer for the center, said it can be hard for people to understand why a tiny lizard, or rare mussel species, or the lesser prairie chicken are worth preserving.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

Still, I appreciated how cinematographer Kevin Atkinson alludes to the dusty Kansas prairie with a shot of a beige strip mall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Every winter he would caravan with his students to Arizona and return to Wisconsin the following summer, an endless repeat of the settling of the interior and the wagon-train journey across the prairie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

The prairie became as hard as stone, birds disappeared from the sky, and the Grandfather sun looked pale and distant.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Planted in April, they look vigorous despite no automatic irrigation, as do other flowers such as daisy-like echinaceas from US prairies.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Refinery issues in the Great Lakes and the prairies of Canada fed into significant price increases for those two areas, including the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin.

From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026

The Port of Churchill opened nearly a century ago and was primarily used to export grain from the prairies.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

The uprooting of prairies across the Great Plains and the Dust Bowl could not have occurred without the massive settler movement triggered by the Homestead Act of 1862.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2025

The night had a quilted, weighted-down quality, as if somehow burdened, and all around us the Minnesota prairies reached out in long repetitive waves of corn and soybeans, everything flat, everything the same.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien