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Recent Examples of weedy
When spots of weedy growths are relatively small, use of a herbicide made for the lawn type could be a good control.
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
Moreover, the subject is weedy and boring.
—George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
While Bermuda and Kikuyu are weedy if allowed to expand into adjacent planter beds, these are your best choices for areas meant exclusively for grass, at least where water conservation is concerned.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
The violet in my garden is weedy and annoying but not invasive.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
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Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
Moreover, the subject is weedy and boring.
—George Skelton, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
While Bermuda and Kikuyu are weedy if allowed to expand into adjacent planter beds, these are your best choices for areas meant exclusively for grass, at least where water conservation is concerned.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
The violet in my garden is weedy and annoying but not invasive.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weedy
Adjective
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The dining room feels more summery—its wall of glass doors open directly onto the lush green courtyard.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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In it, a Native Hawaiian family struggles to reclaim the ancestral lands that colonization, tourism, and rampant development threaten to overrun.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
29 May 2026
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Something, anything to break the spell of poor play, bad luck and rampant injuries that have threatened to sink a once-promising season into the dirt.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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She’s being raised in upper crust Gilead society, tutored in a private girls’ school led by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) for a potential prosperous husband, specifically one in the upper ranks of the military.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
27 May 2026
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Ten minutes down the road from Thiepval, on the other side of the highway leading to today’s prosperous French border city of Amiens, lies the German war cemetery at Fricourt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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Set in a quiet residential neighborhood, this intimate beachfront property (whose name mixes the owners’ first initials with the Dutch word for oasis) uses dense, vibrant landscaping and shutters and stone walls between guest rooms to create a cocooning feeling of privacy.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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The installation, Unheimlich Manöver, 2007, consists of the entire contents of Liden’s former three-hundred-square-foot apartment in Stockholm, organized into a dense rectilinear mass as if placed in storage.—
Erika Landström,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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My room had a four-poster bed, a cast-iron stove and a luxuriant bathroom with a set of two freestanding baths and a large farmhouse sink.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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But now all that luxuriant coat is starting to come off.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Weedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weedy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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