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
Here, visitors will find miles of wetlands as well as expansive prairies covered with wildflowers.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
The authors’ arguments in defense of the prairie and its people deserve attention.
—Monitor Staff, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Beneath its wide skies and quiet prairies lies a rugged and surprising variety of landscapes with trails galore.
—Brian Higgins, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
The Fungi in the Carbon Jigsaw Timo Mendez April 16, 2025
Out of sight, below the soil’s surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
The authors’ arguments in defense of the prairie and its people deserve attention.
—Monitor Staff, Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2025
Beneath its wide skies and quiet prairies lies a rugged and surprising variety of landscapes with trails galore.
—Brian Higgins, Outside Online, 20 May 2025
The Fungi in the Carbon Jigsaw Timo Mendez April 16, 2025
Out of sight, below the soil’s surface, fungi play a vital role in the existence and health of our forests, woodlands, jungles, and prairies.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
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Modern Europeans descend from three main ancestral populations: hunter-gatherers who colonized the continent by around 40,000 years ago, early farmers from Anatolia who came into Europe about 8,500 years ago, and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago.—
Kermit Pattison,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Adrenaline junkies might head to the new Husky Lodge, opening this June, a ten-ger camp in the steppe of the Uvurkhangai region.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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New York City's Comptroller, Brad Lander, says the value of the property in New York City's flood plain is now $176 billion and few people are going to move out of harm's way.—
Laura Sullivan,
NPR,
8 June 2025
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Trump has long taken credit for provisions of a 2017 tax law championed by Alaska's congressional delegation that called for two oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain by late 2024.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 June 2025
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Miller moths live about a year — just long enough to emerge from their cocoons on the Great Plains, migrate west to Colorado’s mountains and return to the grasslands in the fall to lay their eggs, Anderegg said.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
5 June 2025
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Scientists believe that reintroducing mammoth-like creatures to the Arctic tundra could help restore ancient grassland ecosystems and potentially slow permafrost thawing, which releases greenhouse gases.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Read on for even more wreaths under $35, with festive options featuring shiny baubles, LED lights, feathery pampas, and more.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN,
6 Dec. 2024
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Disney World: Both Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon will be open this summer Cast members monitored Tucker’s actions with other savanna residents such as zebras, sable antelopes and springbok.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shares several key findings that demonstrate how African savanna elephants move through challenging landscapes.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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Along the Lamar River, the meadows teem with bison and the wide-open skies yield uninterrupted views of the surrounding peaks.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside Online,
2 June 2025
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The thunder rolled and lightning danced among the jagged peaks as a summer rainstorm soaked the alpine meadows of California’s Sierra Nevada.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began.—
Lois Parshley,
Scientific American,
1 May 2018
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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.—
Caitlin Morton,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Oct. 2023
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“Prairie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prairie. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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