playground

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Recent Examples of playground Residents can use the community room and its kitchenette, the outdoor playground and the grilling patio and tables. Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025 There were times when the twins didn’t want to take their medication and would rather have been normal kids out playing on the playground. Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025 This year’s home sits in Mount Washington’s Bluegrass Meadows neighborhood, a community that features a swimming pool, cabana, fishing pond, and playground. Lennie Omalza, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025 Last November, the City Council approved $25 million for the first phase of the program which consists of a new playground, repairing the boardwalk and replacing public market buildings. Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for playground
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playground
Noun
  • Law was keen to highlight that growing Hong Kong’s aura as a hotbed for fashion talent and enterprises wasn’t without challenges.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The popularity of these names, especially in Galilee, a hotbed of revolt and messianic expectations, stemmed from their revolutionary connotations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Kids and families can enjoy free live music, along with an inflatable playland and other features.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • And then in the hive, in the hot pink mists of our collective mind, a figure appeared.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The artist Ernest Crichlow summons the memory of the sculptor Augusta Savage, whose studio, in a Harlem basement—amid furnaces and stacks of coal—was a paradise of enlightenment and a hive of creative effort.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since 2001, the globe-trotting reality competition has quietly doubled as a celebrity hot spot — with everyone from pro athletes to YouTubers and even a boy-bander chasing that million-dollar finish line.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Blip Coffee Roasters is already a beloved local hot spot, so transforming it into our community hub for the day felt authentic and right.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For years, advocates for expanding child birth options in Kentucky have called on lawmakers to reduce barriers to establishing freestanding birthing centers.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The hurricane center uses only the top four or five highest-performing models to help make its forecasts.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Elote This playful pastry is shaped like an ear of corn, complete with ridges that look like kernels.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • There are kernels of truth in all this.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors argued that Rocha knowingly and deliberately shot and killed Vasquez on July 19, 2022, in the closing arguments of the capital murder trial for Rocha.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In this century’s first two decades, the city had become America’s most relevant and talked-about dining capital — fueled by affordable commercial rents, innovative talent and its access to choice ingredients from local purveyors.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And the company reports compatibility with more donor bike styles, including commuter models, fatbikes, rear-hub ebikes and step-through frames.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lagos is known as the Algarve’s top surfing hub.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playground. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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