prairie
Example Sentences
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Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT lit this prairie fire in November 2022, the semiconductor ETF is up around 190%.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
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
She was accustomed to the chorus of meadowlarks and sandpipers and prairie chickens, now overlaid with the pock-pocking of drills pounding the earth.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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