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dooryard

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as in backyard

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Recent Examples of dooryard These are often called dooryard violets and the Latin name is viola sororia. — Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025 Bridal elms flank a door; an 80-foot dooryard elm shades a house. — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022 Volunteers tend to the home's dooryard gardens, which offered sustenance and herbs for home remedies or dyes for clothing during Colonial times. — Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 13 July 2017

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And truly, now, does the idea of a modern Egyptian family having an underground pyramid in the backyard of their Aswan home strike you as any less pathetically misguided?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
The work in communities across the country — in the backyards of teams and in players’ hometowns — has remained ongoing.

— Mike Jones, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of backyard

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The ceremony site was centered with two airy arrangements of garden roses, hydrangeas, ranunculus and anemones.

— Cary Jenkins, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2026
European Inspiration Tuscan kitchens, French country living rooms, and English cottage gardens were all big hits with moms in the 1990s.

— Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2026

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An initial ceremony was held at Kyiv’s Spaskyi Lyceum, where Halyna had served as school principal for more than 20 years, before moving to a churchyard in the suburb of Zazymia, close to the former family home.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
Juliana, a Black girl, was found hanging in a North Charlotte churchyard May 8.

— Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 31 July 2026

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