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as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
fields green with meadow grass
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as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity
a new pitcher who's pretty green, even by rookie standards
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as in naive
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment
in spite of her age, she's still green enough to be hoodwinked by fast-talking scammers
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as in vegetation
green leaves or plants
the lonely soldier dreamt of the fields of green that he had wandered in as a youth
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as in money
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
I need to save up some green before I can afford that cruise
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Recent Examples of green
Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
Participants painted their hands green and left their handprints on the mural in the shape of leaves on a tree.
—Amaia Gavica, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2025
Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
Dads, there’s honor in allowing your daughter to put your hair in pigtails and paint your nails puke green.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
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Adjective
Either version gives the chicken a deep, smoky heat that’s balanced out by the briny green olives and lightly caramelized broccoli.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2025
Participants painted their hands green and left their handprints on the mural in the shape of leaves on a tree.
—Amaia Gavica, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2025
Noun
All three major indexes moved into the green shortly after the opening bell.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 4 June 2025
Dads, there’s honor in allowing your daughter to put your hair in pigtails and paint your nails puke green.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for green
Adjective
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Proper mowing practices promote lush, dense turf by stimulating shoot and root growth.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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The project will add lush plantings that celebrate biodiversity and link the six-acre expanse, which has fallen into a state of neglect, more closely to its 18th-century Georgian roots.—
Mark Landler,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
Adjective
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Even a naive analysis, one that buys into some very obvious Republican budget tricks, finds that this bill cuts taxes and raises spending by $4 trillion over 10 years — but only pays for about $1.7 trillion of that.—
Ezra Klein,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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In the film's early scenes, Cruise displays a naive, unwavering patriotism that seamlessly meshed with the actor's military heroics in Top Gun three years earlier — which makes Kovic's stark transition to impassioned anti-war advocacy all the more surprising in the runtime's second half.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
24 May 2025
Noun
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There are about 3,600 bunkers on Sazan, armored cement mushrooms emerging from the vegetation or perched on mountaintops like lookouts against phantom American aircraft carriers or Soviet frigates.—
Marzio Mian,
The Dial,
12 June 2025
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The main reasons for the constant uptick are power line undergrounding, other fire mitigation projects and vegetation management by PG&E and other top utilities.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Sano said sponsorship interest could bring more money to players.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
19 June 2025
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The club has turned the Ohtani contract into a credit card, using the money to lure talent to Los Angeles while convincing the new arrivals to defer salary for down the road.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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The video then cuts to present-day Rocco, now a fully grown and considerably larger dog, still happily being scooped up and carried to bed in the same loving fashion.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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And although seeing grown women play 13-year olds could veer into awkwardness, their committed performances make buying in effortless.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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Manipulative or emotionally immature individuals end up exploiting this belief with ease.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Nikki, who can be messy and loud and immature, doesn’t always handle that intensity with grace.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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While to some these screen-free devices may seem like a return to the early, simpler days of fitness trackers, Werring says the public is a bit more savvy than the step-counting obsessives of the 2010s.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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But the system isn’t as simple as the governor suggests.—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Chemical Control Options Spraying the foliage of any vine that is covering a shrub or is surrounded by desirable landscape plants with any type of chemical or natural herbicide like vinegar is not practical.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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Water with soaker hoses or drip irrigation to keep foliage dry which might otherwise be infected with devastating mildew.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
12 June 2025
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“Green.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/green. Accessed 23 Jun. 2025.
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