verdant

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Fold in winter greens — kale, escarole, spinach — and let them wilt just until tender but still verdant.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2026

The acreage includes verdant fields, a lily pond, and mature trees.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025

“Autumn,” while sparser, has its subjects massed at the edges, offering a connection between the verdant periods that come before and the chilly days that lay ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The island's formerly verdant south has been transformed by a tourism boom that brought jobs and economic benefits, but also paved over and built on paddy fields and coconut groves that once provided drainage.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

I saw us walking slowly, silently, toward a far, verdant part of die convent grounds, where suddenly, and without sin, I would put my arm around her waist.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger