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Places to Visit Moreton Island A 75-minute ferry from Brisbane, Moreton is the world’s third-largest sand island—a playground of turquoise lagoons, rolling dunes, and off-grid adventures for the picking.
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Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
Online safeguards are, by and large, voluntary, and tech companies are still rarely held accountable for crimes committed on their sites, creating a virtual playground for predators to groom children without consequences.
—Erin Nicholson, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
In the summer, spend a day at a public beach like the one at Meota Regional Park, which has a supervised swimming area, or at Jackfish Lake, which has a playground and a working lighthouse built purely for show as a tourism project in 1988.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025
The Jimmie Johnson Foundation has provided the San Diego area with everything from three El Cajon homes through Habitat for Humanity to resource rooms, computers, supplies and playground equipment for K-12 schools and $2 million in rebuilding materials following two local wildfires.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
Online safeguards are, by and large, voluntary, and tech companies are still rarely held accountable for crimes committed on their sites, creating a virtual playground for predators to groom children without consequences.
—Erin Nicholson, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
In the summer, spend a day at a public beach like the one at Meota Regional Park, which has a supervised swimming area, or at Jackfish Lake, which has a playground and a working lighthouse built purely for show as a tourism project in 1988.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 6 Nov. 2025
The Jimmie Johnson Foundation has provided the San Diego area with everything from three El Cajon homes through Habitat for Humanity to resource rooms, computers, supplies and playground equipment for K-12 schools and $2 million in rebuilding materials following two local wildfires.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playground
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While there are moss species in the desert and on snowy mountaintops, the warm, moist environments of the Southeastern United States are a moss playland.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
10 Sep. 2025
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Kids and families can enjoy free live music, along with an inflatable playland and other features.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
20 July 2025
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The ivory tower is losing luster by the second, after campuses around the country proved to be hotbeds of antisemitism, grade inflation has spiked rather than dissipated, and outrageous tuitions fund outlandish administrative salaries.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Boston has been something of a hotbed for autonomous vehicle development.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Best Shopping Grand Bazaar Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, encompassing an entire buzzing hive of artisans and merchants spread across 60 streets and 4,000 shops.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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Held captive in a shadowy basement, Michelle’s ordeal blurs the line between paranoia and revelation on Teddy’s remote ranch, where his hive of bees becomes a haunting metaphor for control.—
Tiana DeNicola,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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In 2021, after homing in on wet processing as a major hot spot, Kering purchased the first 15 of PlanetCare’s commercial microfiber filters, capable of capturing 90 percent of shed strands, to install in several knitwear facilities in Italy.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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Prisons have become a coronavirus hot spot in several states.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The source of the flare is an active galactic nucleus, or AGN — a bright, compact region at the center of a galaxy — and it’s powered by a supermassive black hole that is actively feeding on material.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Global capability centers have evolved far beyond tech support, but their growth presents challenges for multinationals and Indian cities alike.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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In short, at the heart within the kernel of concern for memory is a concern for death.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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For example, one study used an event camera to count corn kernels on a fast-moving feeder line, demonstrating accurate item counting in a production setting.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Criticism of India As the leader of the US’ largest city and financial capital, any mayor of New York is given an outsized role on the world stage.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The next morning, Burgher parents—oblivious to the fighting that had broken out in the capital—had lined the walkways and cheered as their children filed into schools with pencils and notebooks and tense faces, some bravely managing a smile, others rigid with fear.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Food hubs can increase local food access by aggregating food products from small to mid-sized farms and distributing them to underserved communities, schools, hospitals and retail stores.—
Cristina LaRue,
Arkansas Online,
9 Nov. 2025
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The flight originated in Alexandria, Louisiana, home to the largest deportation hub in the United States, then made a stop in Atlanta, and continued south to Tapachula, according to ICE Flight Monitor, which tracks ICE flight data on behalf of Human Rights First, an advocacy group.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playground. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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