prairie

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Recent Examples of prairie The varied landscapes of the park, which includes those dramatic dunes, prairies, bogs, and marshes, is home to at least 350 different species of birds. Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2025 The Road Trips That Changed Their Lives Antoni Porowski, Rachel Kushner, Michelle Zauner and others on their most memorable driving vacations, from coastal Maine to the prairies of South Dakota. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025 Pollinators: Bees, butterflies Fiery blanket flower can be spotted baking in prairies or along roadsides and dunes in sandy soil. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2025 With the prairie getting plowed under and replaced almost completely by farmland, the prairie chicken lost its habitat, and is nearly extinct in Illinois. Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for prairie
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prairie
Noun
  • Unclaimed lands, especially on the forested edges of the steppe, were offered to settlers, creating ideal conditions for hunter ticks.
    Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The landscape, a combination of kopjes and plains, also make for stellar sunrises and sunsets.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • As the moon progresses through the different phases of the lunar calendar, the sun's light throws new impact sites, barren plains, and swathes of broken landscapes into relief as prime targets for amateur astronomers wielding binoculars and backyard telescopes.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s more than just spectacle to this event: The park can sustain only about 1,000 of the animals without grasslands becoming dangerously depleted, so the excess population will be auctioned off in the roundup’s wake.
    Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 30 June 2025
  • The road passes vast farm fields, undulating grasslands dotted with towering wind turbines and sprawling cattle ranches before entering Amarillo, the Panhandle’s largest city.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Less well known is their critical role in helping dead things disappear—piles of leaves and rotting stumps, the rat in the street, the elephant on the savanna, the contents of your compost bin.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • Black mambas are often seen cruising the savanna with their head and neck held high, using their keen eyesight to scan for danger or track prey – typically small mammals such as hyraxes, bush babies, and rodents.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Here, genetic tests revealed that a 111-mile-wide meadow of shallow seagrass stemmed from a single hybrid plant that had initially been cloned some 4,500 years ago.
    Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
  • The town of Litchfield is the crossroads of northwest Connecticut, which is loaded with stunning forested vistas, flowering meadows, and canoe-able rivers.
    Marcia DeSanctis, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began.
    Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • 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 9 Jul. 2025.

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