an area of woods, parks, or open land surrounding a community.
Also green belt a strip of land on the edge of a desert that has been planted and irrigated to keep the desert from spreading.
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A little more than a year ago, Boise, Idaho, was known as a charming city boasting a tree-lined river greenbelt and a college football stadium with bright blue artificial turf.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Africa’s Great Green Wall is an ambitious project to counter the expansion of the Sahara Desert by planting a 5,000-mile greenbelt across the continent, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Arnolds Field is officially greenbelt land, but under the surface there is nothing green about it.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025
In any case, the condo development and greenbelt were built.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2023
She raced David halfway around the greenbelt, until the lights of the big hospital sat directly across the river from them.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
A notice Thursday in the federal court in Greenbelt, Md., where Bolton was indicted, said a hearing in the case was set for June 26.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
On Tuesday, Judge Xinis told justice department lawyers at a Greenbelt, Maryland, court hearing: "To date, what the record shows is that nothing has been done. Nothing."
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2025
"Gamma rays, however, travel directly to us," said Elizabeth Hays, the Fermi project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
Her mortgage fraud trial, which began in mid-January, was moved from Baltimore to Greenbelt, Maryland, over concerns potential jurors may have been biased by extensive media coverage of the case.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
A group called Solano Together, a mix of agricultural and environmental organizations like Greenbelt Alliance, recently created a website that characterizes the project as harmful sprawl that would destroy farms.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
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