Green Zone

noun

1. (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

Example Sentences

If they saw any embers drift past them into the “green” zone, they would immediately move to extinguish those flames.

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Lying low in our green zone sounds pretty defeatist.

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"Mars is our closest neighbour. It's the only other rocky planet close to our solar system's 'green zone'. The zone is precisely far enough from the sun to allow for liquid water to exist, a prerequisite for life. So Mars is a place where we possibly can find answers to questions about how life developed, including potential extraterrestrial life," answers Roelofs.

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Footage from the summit’s Green Zone, broadly open to the general public, along with the rest of the city-state, remains fully in the hands of Emirati security services.

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Embassy since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, hitting Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government buildings and embassies on the west bank of the Tigris River.

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