verdant

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Like him, the film is quiet and meditative, bathed in the cool blues and verdant greens of the setting, captured in Maya Bankovic’s saturated cinematography.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The Karoo Basin, once contiguous with Antarctica—and later underwater and now semi-arid—was a verdant home for what the show says were six basic groups of therapsids.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

Casting its relentless sunshine as a background character, coaxing neighbors out of their shells and into verdant parks and yards and onto their manicured streets, is part of that.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

Set on 1.6 verdant acres, the landscaped grounds include an almost 800-square-foot guesthouse and a pool house.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

There was the vague sense of the infinite as I looked down upon the yellow, dreaming waters of the Mississippi River from the verdant bluffs of Natchez.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright