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prairie

[prair-ee] / ˈprɛər i /


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Moore tried a bison, that shaggy American prairie symbol.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT lit this prairie fire in November 2022, the semiconductor ETF is up around 190%.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

He said Thor is located on prairie farmland in central Saskatchewan, close to the geographic center of North America and nearby access to freight-rail lines operated by Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 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

I wanted so badly to describe the prairie smell to him, the sweet promise of spring after a Chinook, the warm, edgy rub of sage, the rib-eye steak smell of my fields.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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