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Origin of greenery
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The outside of the property comes complete with lush greenery, direct beach access, and advanced security.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
The city's Avenues programme is described by the local authority as the biggest transformation of city centre thoroughfares since Buchanan Street was pedestrianised back in the 1970s, adding greenery and cycle lanes throughout the city.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
“There are concrete houses and structures taking the place of greenery and that’s also adding heat to the atmosphere,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Trump's post featured a 10-second video showing an overhead view of a building surrounded by greenery before an explosion erupts, sending up a cloud of smoke.
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
I shut my eyes and as long as I keep them closed, I'm surrounded by greenery.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
They had visited the Coliseum, at that period still overhung with ivy garlands and trailing greeneries, and not, as now, scraped clean and bare and "tidied" out of much of its picturesqueness.
From What Katy Did Next by Coolidge, Susan
The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
Each, in deference to the long-established tradition of the neighbourhood, bore a garland of ferns and other greeneries, and each came armed with the necessary pin that was to work the spell.
From The School by the Sea by Brazil, Angela
I stared after her for a moment or more, watching the pretty brown dress flashing in and out of shadow among the ragged greeneries, shafts of sunshine now and then flashing upon her hair.
From The Guest of Quesnay by Tarkington, Booth
Between-whiles he cast admiring glances of the most ardent delight at his garden of an acre and a half, and its glowing mass of apple-bloom,—and at all the luscious greeneries of the May world without.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Byron, May Clarissa Gillington
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