prairie
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Once out of the prairie in western Minnesota, the scenery got more conventional, with more towns, as well as larger cities.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
One of Canada's main objectives during this trip is to ease Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola that have hurt farmers in the country's prairie provinces.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
The roof needed to be replaced to withstand heavy snow, hard rain and the golf-ball-sized hail of prairie thunderstorms.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2025
During strong westerly winds, especially in years with a wet spring and hot, dry fall, swarms of thousands—sometimes hundreds of thousands—roll freely over the prairie landscape, halting only where housing developments stand in their way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
No, these rustles belonged to the prairie night—pack rats and prairie dogs and who knew what else.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Vocabulary lists containing prairie
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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The United States
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