as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
a folktale about gauchos on the pampas
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Recent Examples of pampa
Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.
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Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
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Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
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Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.
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Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass.
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Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Aug. 2025
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
—
Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.
—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass.
—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pampa
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There are flag sweaters and skate sneakers and prairie skirts; there are Cheyanne moccasins and Mennonite bonnets and the not-quite-holy Yankees baseball cap.
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Royce Ben Jameson was arrested on suspicion of the offense of firing woods or prairie and third-degree criminal trespass.
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Patagonia is a diverse region in southern Chile and Argentina, with glaciers, mountains and fjords to the west, stretching into steppe and desert toward the east.
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References to nomads of the Kazakh steppe and local symbolism abound in the label, as seen in the heavy glass bottles recalling nomads’ flasks and decorated with handmade pendants in the form of old coins engraved with the emblem of each fragrance.
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The winery sits among vines on the ancient plain of Oia, which gives the visit a calmer feel than the crowd above it.
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Since Mary Grace’s death, her parents have poured their energy into persuading lawmakers to make camps safer by banning cabins in active flood plains, mandating 24-7 weather monitoring and requiring rigorous annual evacuation training.
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An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.
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The association says the conservation effort will also offer residents and visitors the chance to learn about the historic relationship between bison, grasslands and Indigenous cultures.
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Across the Amazon rainforest, cerrado savanna, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal wetland, Caatinga scrub and Pampa grassland, the country’s plant life seems less like one national inheritance than several botanical worlds sharing a border.
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Set on a tiny, exceedingly private spit of land deep inside a national park, the property spans wetlands, savanna, and Rwanda’s quintessential hillscapes.
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“Pampa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pampa. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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