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playground

noun

Definition of playground

as in playland

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Recent Examples of playground There are plenty of reasons that Frankfort’s Lucy Lindgren enjoys the makeover at the Fort Frankfort playground. — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026 Crystal Academy will also get a 4,000-square-foot park with a playground that will open to the public after school hours. — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 The incident shocked Monaco, a coastal playground for the rich and famous known for its tax-friendly incentives, royal family and Formula 1 Grand Prix. — ABC News, 7 July 2026 Pack a lunch and head to the local playground or backyard with another family, suggests Russell. — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for playground

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Noun

In the playland of frozen drinks, though, ice plays an all-the-more crucial role.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 10 June 2026
The $50 million playland opened in miserable Memorial Day weekend weather, but 12,000 visitors still showed up.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026

Definition of playland

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Go inside the football hotbed that leads Georgia’s 159 counties in prospects per capita.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Schlittler and Rice, two first-time selections from the Boston area – the Northeast isn’t exactly a hotbed for baseball talent – could end up playing a major part in All-Star festivities.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

Definition of hotbed

Noun

The semiotics of the badge signal a sort of hive-mind curation, a global book group that has determined that this book, of all the millions of books, is worthy of promotion.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
Against the backdrop of a bright-yellow 1890s railway depot that’s now a local history museum, this market is a hive of downtown activity.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

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Your next big adventure begins in the Jackson Hole valley, a summer hot spot full of outdoor fun and handsome scenery where everyone seems to be from somewhere else yet made the decision to plant roots and stay.

— Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
End your visit at Kindred, the restaurant most often credited with putting Davidson on the map as a culinary hot spot.

— Brennan Long, Southern Living, 7 July 2026

Definition of hot spot

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Neto bobbled the ball for an error, though, and Contreras crushed Johnson’s next pitch for his 20th homer, a 446-foot shot to left-center that left his bat at 112 mph and gave Boston a 5-3 lead.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The incident happened less than a week after another child was found dead inside a car at a Plantation early learning center last Monday.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026

Definition of center

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Mi Rancho has been making tortillas since 1939 and continues to use whole-kernel California corn, a commitment that shows in the tortillas’ fresh taste and consistently tender texture.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 July 2026
The vulnerability resides in KVM, which is, in essence, a virtual machine app included in the kernel of many Linux distributions.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

Definition of kernel

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The fund will give Arada a new source of capital to fund its ambitions at a time when lenders and investors have become more cautious about Gulf real estate in the wake of the Iran war.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
That capital is now tied down rather than being deployed for investment or expansion.

— Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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