as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
a folktale about gauchos on the pampas
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Recent Examples of pampa
Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.
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Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
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Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
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Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.
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Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
Some invasive ornamental grasses include pampas grass, Mexican feather grass, and fountaingrass.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alyssa Gautieri,
Good Housekeeping,
13 June 2023
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
6 June 2026
This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.
—
Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.
—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
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
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For outdoor adventurers, nearby Myakka River State Park delivers with a canopy walkway through pineland, prairie, and wetlands.
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Now, each year, the vineyard brings in roughly 120 to 130 sheep, which rotate through the property’s oak habitat and upland prairie habitat over the course of a few months.
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Patagonia is a diverse region in southern Chile and Argentina, with glaciers, mountains and fjords to the west, stretching into steppe and desert toward the east.
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References to nomads of the Kazakh steppe and local symbolism abound in the label, as seen in the heavy glass bottles recalling nomads’ flasks and decorated with handmade pendants in the form of old coins engraved with the emblem of each fragrance.
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Their experience exposes vulnerabilities across the country, experts say, because flood plain maps don’t cover all areas.
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Most travelers visit Africa for wildlife moments such as elephants at a waterhole, lions in the grass and rhinos on open plains.
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The sun shined on the battlefield area, a wide-open grassland with few trees, mountains in the distance.
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The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
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Across the Amazon rainforest, cerrado savanna, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal wetland, Caatinga scrub and Pampa grassland, the country’s plant life seems less like one national inheritance than several botanical worlds sharing a border.
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Set on a tiny, exceedingly private spit of land deep inside a national park, the property spans wetlands, savanna, and Rwanda’s quintessential hillscapes.
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“Pampa.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pampa. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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