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Recent Examples of palmy Our palmy years began way before Hollywood and the enormous hillside onetime real estate sign of that name. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025 Serve a crisp cookie with each serving, such as a butter cookie or palmier. Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register, 22 Oct. 2024 The restaurant serves meat but is known for its palmy vegetables—roasted, smoked, fermented, braised; dished out with plenty of nuts, herbs, seeds, and cheeses. Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024 In palmier times, the leader of the Wagner group, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, appeared at a Russian cultural center in the capital of the Central African Republic, sitting with schoolchildren and promising them free laptops. Elian Peltier Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023 Painters draw them against tropical, palmy backgrounds. Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2023 In the century that followed, Carter’s house was turned into a museum with a green, palmy garden, thanks to water brought in from the Nile. Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022 Remember those palmy days when conservative conspiracy theorists outside elective politics spread the word that Democrats wanted to molest your children? Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for palmy
Adjective
  • In 2019, when speaking to Trunk Nation, McKagan said that following their massively successful Not in This Lifetime reunion tour, which saw Slash and McKagan return after nearly two decades, the band had an LP in the works.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • As the most successful girl band of all time, the group reportedly raked in approximately $72 million (£60 million) per year during the 90s.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Originally from Ohio, Frank came to what is now Fort Lauderdale in 1893 and founded a thriving trading business with the Seminoles and eventually worked as the area’s postmaster.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • What once felt like the Wild West has become a thriving ecosystem of university labs, independent design studios, startups, and industrial manufacturers, creating market-ready products.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Sarah Keohane Williamson is the Chief Executive Officer of FCLTGlobal, a non-profit research organization whose mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1820s, Gregor MacGregor announced the discovery of Poyais, a lush and prosperous paradise in Central America.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Place chicken in hot oil, and cook, undisturbed, until a golden brown crust forms, 4 to 5 minutes.
    Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Jessie Murph is ready to kick off the European leg of her Hysteria tour in Amsterdam in a golden ensemble.
    Lex Goldstein, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In a quarter where JPMorgan handily topped expectations, thanks to booming activity in institutional trading, questions from reporters and analysts around credit losses took center stage.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
  • For Broadcom, the move provides deeper access to the booming AI market.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In the early nineties, the halcyon days of mountain biking, a cadre of American cyclists competed all over the world on these glorious if archaic machines.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Of course, This Is Spinal Tap is a document from well after the band's halcyon days.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Palmy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/palmy. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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