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Plop down to eat your picnic just about anywhere, such as a free concert, at a playground, or in a state park.
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Parents, 11 June 2026
Campground amenities include a swimming pool, bike rentals, a playground and a dog park.
—Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
The family-friendly Grand Beach, open to the public, is worth the visit for the in-ocean pool, call buttons on your lounger, watersports, and playground.
—Aileen Weintraub, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
The character of Carolyn was such a tactile person, really from all of our accounts, the city was so much her playground.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 June 2026
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Parents, 11 June 2026
Campground amenities include a swimming pool, bike rentals, a playground and a dog park.
—Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 10 June 2026
The family-friendly Grand Beach, open to the public, is worth the visit for the in-ocean pool, call buttons on your lounger, watersports, and playground.
—Aileen Weintraub, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
The character of Carolyn was such a tactile person, really from all of our accounts, the city was so much her playground.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 10 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playground
Noun
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In the playland of frozen drinks, though, ice plays an all-the-more crucial role.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
10 June 2026
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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
Noun
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But still, even with this relatively small sample, the hometowns paint a reasonably accurate picture of America’s soccer hotbeds.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
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The city has since become a hotbed of new development.—
Kelly Yamanouchi,
AJC.com,
4 June 2026
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These would be my nap companions, a busy hive of bees whose entrance was out the side of the cottage.—
Christine Sarkis,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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Like a honeybee leaving its hive for the first time, the drone begins with a short learning flight around its home.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 June 2026
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The Little Nell is an après ski hot spot and one of the best people-watching spots in town.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
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Firefighters put out a hot spot from the Brantley Highway 82 Fire on April 24, 2026 in Atkinson, Georgia.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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Vegas played much of the night without center William Karlsson, who was being checked out on the bench for an apparent upper-body injury.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Philadelphia declared a heat health emergency for Thursday and Friday, activating cooling centers, home visits by field teams, outreach to people experiencing homelessness and other services.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides packet filtering capabilities.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
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When cool enough to handle, cut kernels from cobs and coarsely chop onion.—
Cathy Thomas,
Oc Register,
8 June 2026
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Its proximity to the fascinating capital of Kunming is also appealing for travelers who don’t intend to go to Tibet and never plan on leaving the city.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
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The missiles had been launched toward the Azraq area in the Zarqa governorate, which sits around 65 miles east of the country’s capital, Amman, the Jordanian armed forces said in a statement.—
Sarah Dean,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!—
Wendy Naugle,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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Other major Filipino American hubs in the Bay Area include Union City and Vallejo.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
13 June 2026
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“Playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playground. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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