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Every October, Epic Games flips the battle royale map into a Halloween playground filled with challenges and limited-time chaos, also known as Fortnitemares.
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Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The park has a playground and a memorial for her and her friend, Sarah Evans.
—Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The neon-hued, gorgeously lit End of Line club is Castor’s playground in the virtual world of the Grid, and Sheen knew how to make the practical set and the character his own.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
The image shows a baby Travis being pushed in a swing on a playground, seemingly by his older brother, Jason Kelce.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The park has a playground and a memorial for her and her friend, Sarah Evans.
—Emma George-Griffin, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
The neon-hued, gorgeously lit End of Line club is Castor’s playground in the virtual world of the Grid, and Sheen knew how to make the practical set and the character his own.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2025
The image shows a baby Travis being pushed in a swing on a playground, seemingly by his older brother, Jason Kelce.
—Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playground
Noun
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Florida — specifically Miami — is the hotbed.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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As a hotbed of resistance against its British colonizers, Bengal’s freedom struggle was fought as much with ideas as with weapons.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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This might sound ridiculous to anyone outside the hive, but Swift actively encourages this kind of analysis and listicle-bait with borderline psychotic schemes.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 Oct. 2025
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Researchers trained a small group of foragers to visit a feeder located north of a hive along a gravel road.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One example is my hometown of Rochester, New York, which has become a bidding-war hot spot in recent years.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Take Tribeca Grill, the New American hot spot that closed earlier this year after more than three decades serving New York’s downtown set.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
5 Oct. 2025
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Freshman Eva Karacalidis starred in her debut at center-mid, helping the Porkers apply a wealth of offensive pressure in an 11-shot first half.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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From 2021 to March 2025, the Turgeau emergency center treated more than 100,000 patients.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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But critics say the memo builds on kernels of truth before veering into unscientific fringe theories.—
Stephanie Armour,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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The female’s back is covered in small protrusions that resemble popped kernels of popcorn, inspiring its genus name Zea, derived from the corn plant.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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More than 60% of the capital's health facilities, including Haiti's general hospital, are now shuttered or non-functioning because of the surge in gang violence.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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The aide ordered his family to pack their bags and go to the defense ministry in the capital’s central Umayyad Square.—
Danny Makki,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Additional air travel delays and cancellations are possible Monday for major hubs like Washington, DC, New York City and Boston.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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The company was founded in 1948 in Civitanova Marche — one of Italy’s main shoes manufacturing hubs — by Giuseppe and Cecilia Paciotti, Cesare and Paola’s parents.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playground. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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