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Recent Examples of grass
Provided your leaf layer isn't too thick, the smaller pieces will settle down into the grass and become less visible, while still providing soil benefits.
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Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025
In the forest there are branches, turf, and grass.
—Carolyn Forché, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
This means roughly 35 million tons of leaves and grass hit the nation's landfills, though this number has been in decline since the 1990s when some states (but not Indiana) began introducing legislation that discouraged yard waste heading to landfills.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Nov. 2025
Put your bare feet in the grass.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
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Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Nov. 2025
In the forest there are branches, turf, and grass.
—Carolyn Forché, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
This means roughly 35 million tons of leaves and grass hit the nation's landfills, though this number has been in decline since the 1990s when some states (but not Indiana) began introducing legislation that discouraged yard waste heading to landfills.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Nov. 2025
Put your bare feet in the grass.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 2 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grass
Noun
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Prune evergreen shrubs and trees that provide too much shade on the lawn.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Recipes from Valencia took me back to an afternoon lounging in the lawns near The City of Arts and Sciences, staring at orange trees, plucking pieces of rabbit from paella with my fingers, and swirling toast into olive oil.—
Jamila Robinson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Several buyers have mentioned buying more than one color of these comfy pants, which are available in heather gray, black, heather navy, and heather green.—
Destinee Scott,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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Find mix-and-match patterns, sculptural light fixtures, and sleek furniture, whether that’s the look-at-me bar in green, or the slender modernist seats.—
Chadner Navarro,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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This means that overseeing with a cool season grass, expect in the mildest winters, will be necessary to maintain a greensward throughout the winter months.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
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Gwynns Falls and Leakin parks (there’s a seamless connection between these two greenswards) stymied the highway builders 50-plus years ago.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Aug. 2024
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“Grass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grass. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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