as in steppe
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country
you can see for miles in every direction on the prairie
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Recent Examples of prairie
Thunderstorms ripped across Oklahoma prairies Thursday night as severe weather was expected to intensify Friday and bring the threat of powerful tornadoes to multiple states in the nation’s heartland.
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Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
For much of the last century, bison were absent from this yawning expanse of mountain and prairie in central Wyoming.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
Once established, queen of the prairie produces masses of fragrant, pale pink flower heads throughout the summer, along with bright green, finely cut foliage that's resistant to hungry deer.
—Lynn McAlpine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026
Perez said families typically get to board a trailer and ride across the prairie for a close look at the herd.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
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Kathy McCormack, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
For much of the last century, bison were absent from this yawning expanse of mountain and prairie in central Wyoming.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
Once established, queen of the prairie produces masses of fragrant, pale pink flower heads throughout the summer, along with bright green, finely cut foliage that's resistant to hungry deer.
—Lynn McAlpine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Mar. 2026
Perez said families typically get to board a trailer and ride across the prairie for a close look at the herd.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
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Folktales are filled with people fighting to survive in forests, steppes, and deserts, and evading and outwitting the wild beasts that dwell within them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Even today, its influence stretches from the steppes of Kazakhstan to the far reaches of low Earth orbit.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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Further inland and to the south, Wolwedans Boulders Camp sits atop an island of granite and sandy plains found within a private nature reserve deep in the desert.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
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Fire danger will be elevated in the I-25 corridor on Tuesday, in the northeast plains on Wednesday and from the foothills to the plains between Thursday and Saturday, forecasters said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2026
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Take a hike Head out to a mountain or grassland and follow the trails to see native plants in bloom now.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Venezuela’s Orinoco River Basin is a wild land of lush forests, grasslands and a vast delta of jungle wetlands teeming with wildlife.—
Antonio Machado Allison,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2026
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Brasília was built from scratch, in the middle of nowhere, in the hostile climate of the Cerrado—a savanna-like biome—hundreds of miles from any highway, railway, or airport.—
Sophia La Banca,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Mar. 2026
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The habitat, the largest project in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s 109-year history, is home to the park’s herd of eight African savanna elephants.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2026
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There, Patagonia stretches out into wide skies, windswept pampas, turquoise lakes, and towering ice fields.—
Eric Sheets,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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The earthy palette of browns, pampa greens, and guanaco beiges further enhances the collection’s life-in-the-great-outdoors vibe, only occasionally countered with pops of vivid blue and black.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
18 Nov. 2025
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Wildflower hot spots are found all over Georgia in diverse habitats — pine and hardwood forests, meadows, wetlands, stream banks, mountain ridges and coves, granite outcrops and others.—
Charles Seabrook,
AJC.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Johnson recommends installing an owl box or letting a section of your yard grow naturally as a meadow to attract these helpful predators.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
7 Mar. 2026
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The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization.—
J.R. Patterson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Oct. 2023
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Working with local landscape architect Dawid Klopper, the couple removed most of the non-native foliage and replaced it with indigenous plants more typical of South Africa’s veld, or grassland, like aloes and red grass.—
Ingrid Abramovitch,
ELLE Decor,
5 Jan. 2021
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“Prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prairie. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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