Thesaurus results for GROUNDS

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noun

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plural of ground

as in park

the area around and belonging to a building an escorted tour of the White House and its surrounding grounds

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as in sediment

matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid strain the coffee to remove the grounds

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as in reason

something (as a belief) that serves as the basis for another thing evicted the tenants on the grounds that they violated the lease

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ground

as in predicates

to find a basis you're grounding your entire case on circumstantial evidence

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Recent Examples of grounds

Noun

Because she was not permitted on school grounds and not authorized to take the student off school property, she was charged with felony kidnapping. —

Logan Smith, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026 Trains, buses and the Metrorail will drop fans off at the Miami Intermodal Center, which is adjacent to Miami International Airport and across the street from the stadium grounds. —

Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 That said, Saturday's attendance was difficult to estimate since the crowd was dispersed around the Statehouse grounds. —

Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Mar. 2026 Eight attorneys general, led by California’s Rob Bonta, filed a separate lawsuit on similar legal grounds. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026 With the holiday rotated among her siblings' homes, each year brought new hunting grounds and places for the colorful plastic eggs to be hidden. —

Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 28 Mar. 2026 After years of controversy surrounding the original’s dumping into Baltimore’s harbor six years ago, a replica of a Christopher Columbus sculpture was placed on the White House grounds on Sunday, according to numerous reports. —

Chevall Pryce, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2026 This bill will ensure that threats to companion animals are grounds for granting domestic violence protection orders. —

Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026 Barring any injury setbacks, Tiger Woods could be on the hallowed grounds of Augusta National Golf Club, trying to make the cut in pursuit of a 16th major championship. —

Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 21 Mar. 2026

Verb

What grounds your sense of worth today? —

Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026 Still, Keisha’s final monologue is devastating in its plea for perceptual equity, and daniels’ performance grounds the play in something urgently human. —

Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026 This shift grounds the immersive experience in a tangible reality, bringing together memory, artistic expression, and documentary sensibility. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026 Park turns a single into a double off an error, but Namken grounds out to bring up the final inning. —

Caleb Yum, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026

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The neighborhood/area The hotel sits in the North Loop area of Minneapolis, blocks away from the iconic Hennepin Street Bridge with easy access to the riverfront parks along the Mississippi, with their great cycling and walking trails and varied perspectives on the city.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
Austin Hays also hit a three-run home run for the Sox, who collected their first win of the season by defeating the Miami Marlins 9-4 in front of 6,515 at loanDepot park.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026