as in steppe
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
you can see for miles in every direction on the prairie
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Recent Examples of prairie
My new husband and I built a house on several acres, our own little bit of prairie.
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Chera Hammons, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Arrive early to hike trails through remnant prairie and have a pre-show picnic, then watch an alfresco performance as dusk falls.
—Charles Usher, Midwest Living, 10 June 2026
Cricket and Olympia first meet in grade school in a northwest Indiana prairie town.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
The Okefenokee swamp's prairies are vast, watery expanses dotted with floating islands and stands of cypress and other trees.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
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Chera Hammons, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Arrive early to hike trails through remnant prairie and have a pre-show picnic, then watch an alfresco performance as dusk falls.
—Charles Usher, Midwest Living, 10 June 2026
Cricket and Olympia first meet in grade school in a northwest Indiana prairie town.
—Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
The Okefenokee swamp's prairies are vast, watery expanses dotted with floating islands and stands of cypress and other trees.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
Noun
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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.—
Brittany Peterson,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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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.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Instead of a narrow peak there would be an endless plain of excellence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 June 2026
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Just south of Alice Springs, in the dead centre of Australia, the MacDonnell Ranges rise from the desert plains like creases on a tablecloth.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
14 June 2026
Noun
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This transition from grassland prairie to mountains stretches from southeast to northwest Wyoming.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2026
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According to the team’s modeling, grasslands contain about 40 percent of Earth’s AM infrastructures, with particularly high concentrations predicted in the Florida Everglades, the Tibetan plateau in Asia, and South Sudan in Africa.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The 119-acre lakefront park, which is actually a peninsula, not an island, features more than 150 varieties of native plants, 20,000 trees and shrubs, a 5-acre pond, strolling paths, and wild prairie grasses and savanna.—
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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This includes savannahs and shrublands.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
17 June 2026
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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.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
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This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
Noun
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In early spring, the meadow — like the sloping rock garden fronting the house — fills with California poppies.—
Nicole Sours Larson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2026
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El Niño can also wreak havoc on the many marine ecosystems that support the world’s fishing industries, including coral reefs and seagrass meadows.—
Dillon Amaya,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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The prospect of being stuck in a jeep watching wildebeest pour through the veld did not intrigue me.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2026
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Then the curse of the fathers found me — slow at first, like a rumor rolling over the veld, then sudden, like a snare snapping shut on bone.—
Jan Steyn,
The Dial,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prairie. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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