prairie
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But when you spend 12 hours seeing nothing but prairie with not a person, car or structure in sight, you realize what an amazing country we all live in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
Nothing could have provided a more suitable host than an area of prairie where native grasses had been scythed away and the ground torn up by metal ploughshares and the hooves of a farmer’s horses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 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 the middle of everything is start-up OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, which lit the prairie fire in 2022.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
How did she not know about a place like this in the middle of the tall grass prairie?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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