Green Zone
noun
(since the invasion of Iraq by US-led forces, and the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003) the area of central Baghdad used by the coalition and civilian authorities, subject to high security
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How to use Green Zone in a sentence
He had been identified by a militia while emerging from the Green Zone one afternoon in October 2006.
We Abandoned Them: Kirk Johnson’s Fight to Save Iraqis | John Kael Weston | September 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe arena was in a security area that resembled a Green Zone.
As for her, she no longer saw anything except that deep Green Zone which quivered behind the heat.
Sacrifice | Stephen French WhitmanSometimes the Green Zone of the uplands was lost in a blur not of heat, but of fever.
Sacrifice | Stephen French Whitman
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