as in plain
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
after days of trudging through dense forest, the explorers came upon a vast champaign
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The suit said the warehouse is in a flood plain, and that the sewage system couldn't keep up if 500 people are detained inside.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Gross said the astronauts will be able to see the Aristarchus Plateau, one of the youngest craters on the moon, as well as Grimaldi crater and the Oceano Procellarum, a lunar plain that might have been formed by an asteroid impact.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
6 Apr. 2026
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When cities buy water rights from rural areas and let the fields go fallow, the land does not automatically return to the shortgrass prairie encountered by 19th-century homesteaders or the Native Americans before them.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
7 Apr. 2026
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On July 2, A ranch foreman checking on sheep finds strange debris spread over a prairie near Roswell, New Mexico.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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These descendants of Kazakh nomadic herders, who once moved freely across the steppe with their animals, now speak of staying put as a mark of strength rather than constraint.—
Magdalena Stawkowski,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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During her time on the frozen steppe, Ida faced significant challenges, including illness, harsh winters, forced labor, and separation from her father.—
Wyles Daniel,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
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Investigators are looking at the house as the potential source of the fire, which burned about 50 to 75 acres of grassland.—
John Aguilar,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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The grassland fire was burning with a rapid rate of spread and the potential to reach 200 acres, the agency said.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.—
Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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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
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“Champaign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/champaign. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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