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Recent Examples of turf
China’s Alibaba was launched in 1999 and three years later took on eBay, soon vanquishing the American company on its home turf.
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Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of those projects include improvements to the scoreboard and turf at Helfaer Field and other maintenance.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
At the Dallas Street property, small cliques of armed men, mostly Venezuelans and Mexicans, fought an ongoing turf war.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
But the path to the winner’s circle might be a bit more difficult for the 5-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo in the 1 1/8-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
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Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Some of those projects include improvements to the scoreboard and turf at Helfaer Field and other maintenance.
—Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
At the Dallas Street property, small cliques of armed men, mostly Venezuelans and Mexicans, fought an ongoing turf war.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
But the path to the winner’s circle might be a bit more difficult for the 5-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo in the 1 1/8-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for turf
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Even better, seven metro areas were firmly in buyers’ market territory, meaning there were at least six months of supply available for purchase.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The British had seized the territory from the Ottoman Empire during World War I.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Researchers distributed email surveys to 80,000 licensed hunters and another 80,000 landowners in the subject states, and over 1,200 active conservation officers were also surveyed in an effort to get a comprehensive view of attitudes about and estimations of the prevalence of poaching.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
11 Sep. 2025
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The two winners and two runners-up in the categories of fiction and nonfiction this year divide their subjects across genre lines, though this is typically not the case.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Turf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turf. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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