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Recent Examples of pampa Read on for even more wreaths under $35, with festive options featuring shiny baubles, LED lights, feathery pampas, and more. Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024 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
  • The earthen walls hold back the rain that rolls down the vast Texas prairies, through Houston, on its way to the gulf.
    Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
  • The presentation also will take a deep dive into the different plants and animals found in prairies, as well as the methods land managers use to preserve this valuable landscape, event organizers said.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Modern Europeans descend from three main ancestral populations: hunter-gatherers who colonized the continent by around 40,000 years ago, early farmers from Anatolia who came into Europe about 8,500 years ago, and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago.
    Kermit Pattison, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
  • Adrenaline junkies might head to the new Husky Lodge, opening this June, a ten-ger camp in the steppe of the Uvurkhangai region.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • New York City's Comptroller, Brad Lander, says the value of the property in New York City's flood plain is now $176 billion and few people are going to move out of harm's way.
    Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
  • Trump has long taken credit for provisions of a 2017 tax law championed by Alaska's congressional delegation that called for two oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain by late 2024.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Miller moths live about a year — just long enough to emerge from their cocoons on the Great Plains, migrate west to Colorado’s mountains and return to the grasslands in the fall to lay their eggs, Anderegg said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
  • Scientists believe that reintroducing mammoth-like creatures to the Arctic tundra could help restore ancient grassland ecosystems and potentially slow permafrost thawing, which releases greenhouse gases.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Disney World: Both Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon will be open this summer Cast members monitored Tucker’s actions with other savanna residents such as zebras, sable antelopes and springbok.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shares several key findings that demonstrate how African savanna elephants move through challenging landscapes.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025

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