Thesaurus results for PLAYGROUND

playground

noun

Definition of playground

as in playland

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Recent Examples of playground After shooting the boys in the bathroom, Litton walked onto the school playground and turned the gun on himself, according to the lawsuit. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The work included sanding playground equipment, cleaning up wood chips and organizing toys. — Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2026 Lock Your Trash Can A full trash can is a house mouse’s playground. — Lauren Murphy, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2026 Characters drive multiple new activities including interactive elements, indoor playground, drawing lessons with Olaf. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 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

Noun

Hong Kong Fashion Fest, now in its third edition, continues to raise the city’s international fashion profile, supporting the Asian hub’s status as a hotbed for creativity.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026
The intersection of video games and trading cards has been a hotbed of activity and collaborations.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hotbed

Noun

The Orwellian parallels and Cold War overtones are strong on this particular planet, where a hive-mind entity enforces conformity through mass surveillance and zero-tolerance punishments.

— Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026
With its high design, beach club and scenery rooftop, La Roqqa is set to become a hive of beautiful Italians and in the know travelers who want the sexiness of the riviera without the masses.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of hive

Noun

Continue reading … HOLIDAY HAZARD — Travelers warned of drink-spiking robberies and kidnappings at vacation hot spot.

— , FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Additionally, Uma Thurman, who is returning to the series as Charley, was spotted in the tourist hot spot shooting Tuesday.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of hot spot

Noun

The latest forecast predicts the center will pass roughly 115 to 150 miles west of Kauai, close enough that any additional eastward shifts in the track could bring stronger winds and greater impacts, particularly to Kauai, the hurricane center said.

— Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
The center makes the protection calls, and often, zone runs cut vertically toward the center.

— Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of center

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Testing fuel layer by layer TRISO, or tristructural isotropic fuel, uses a fuel kernel surrounded by multiple coating layers.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
The grain is smaller than wheat, for example, and farmers and researchers are still finding the best ways to adapt farm equipment so the kernel isn't damaged during harvest.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of kernel

Noun

The financial bets are large enough for boards to wince at capital expenditure implications.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026
Ukraine's State Emergency Service said Tuesday that Russian strikes on Kyiv had killed one person and wounded seven other people since the start of the day, with attacks carried out on the capital's gas stations.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of capital

Noun

The collaboration aims to develop a robust local supply chain and position India as a strategic manufacturing and export hub for advanced rocket systems.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
The airport is one of the busiest in the country, seeing some 26 million passengers board flights out of the hub in 2025, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026

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