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Recent Examples of pampa Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass. Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Aug. 2025 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions. Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024 Use it for fresh buds or a few pampas stems to liven up your living room or sleeping space. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2023 Shop vibrant blooms like coral daisies, autumn sunflowers and golden yarrow, plus grass stems like pampas, wheat and bunny tails. Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pampa
Noun
  • On the Cougars’ second possession, Weigman broke one tackle and found nothing but Texas prairie in front of him for a 49-yard gain.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Adding a 2,800-square-foot prairie meadow along the eastern border of the dog park to provide natural habitat for birds and pollinators, and offer noise buffering.
    Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mongolia’s vast steppes and nomadic heritage have long shaped the rhythms of life.
    Munkhtuya Rentsenbat, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Identification of microbes The team used genomic and bioinformatic techniques to analyze the remains of woolly and steppe mammoths.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Then a lion’s roar broke across the plain.
    Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Humanity, united by one language, settles on a plain in Shinar and begins constructing a tower to reach the heavens and make a name for themselves.
    John Fugelsang September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, or Roadless Rule, prohibits the new construction of roads and timber harvesting on nearly 45 million acres of national forests and grasslands.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Their preferred habitats likely included open grasslands, forest edges and floodplains.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An insurgency was launched by Boko Haram in 2009 to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel (the semi-arid transitional zone between the Sahara and savannas), with several other terrorist groups also active in the region.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Most travelers associate the Great Migration with East Africa’s Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in Tanzania and Kenya, where millions of blue wildebeest—African antelopes also called gnus—thunder across the savanna each year.
    Mazuba Kapambwe, AFAR Media, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Pampa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pampa. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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