prairie
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By the early 1990s, duck populations had exceeded the high of the 1950s; by 2015 almost 50 million waterfowl populated the prairie pothole region of the northern Great Plains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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
Among the factors in that slide was a drought that struck the cattle-raising prairie states starting in 2020 and lasting through 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
The dusty grass verges surrounding the prison are teeming with noisy prairie dogs scurrying into their burrows whenever disturbed by prison vehicles coming and going.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2025
In one pudgy hand she carried a slightly smashed prairie rose, in the other a bent wild iris.
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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