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Since then, however, she had been "encouraged" by initiatives such as No Mow May, which encourages people to let grassy areas grow wild, increasing the places for butterflies to feed and breed.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
It has set up a temporary campus at the grassy Presidio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Behind that is a huge structure on the Ellipse, the grassy area just outside the grounds, where the White House says up to 125,000 people will be able to watch on free screens.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The grassy grounds include a pool and an outdoor kitchen.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
When the day ended, I’d head home, walking across the grassy lawns of the campus at twilight, then winding my way through town until I arrived.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
The former is grown underground and flaunts a more bitter and sweeter flavor profile, while the latter is grown above ground and is grassier in taste.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
As one example, deforestation in one tropical region might turn a rainforest into a "savanna-type system," which is a drier, grassier ecosystem with far fewer trees.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
In Lagos, lush, green lemongrass bushes, grassier sisters of the yellow lemongrass stalks, grow locally.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Still, make sure it’s one you like the taste of, especially for grassier extra-virgin oils.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
She rode up and down the canyons and over the higher, grassier ridges, to watch the cattle on their summer range and keep them from straying.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.
Naturally, it has developed to the largest degree and size in those animals which have lived upon the bulkiest and grassiest of foods, the so-called Herbivora, or grass-eaters.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
Sunny busied himself laying out the utensils on the grassiest spot he could find.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell
The sunset gave a deeper mellowness to the standing crops, and in the grassiest corner of the wayside villages the young men and maidens were dancing like the figures in vignette illustrations of classic poets.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
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