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Origin of greenery
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Those openings will arrive as Cava tries to add more greenery, warmer lighting and softer seats to its locations, in an effort to bring in more consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
That means perfectly coiffed hair, stark white interiors with pops of color and, despite the era’s prevalent greenery, no extraneous plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
"One approach is to set the building back from the street and... to arrange greenery so that, at eye level, its presence doesn't feel so overwhelming," Jouzuka told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
It's a real-life dating retreat held at an 8th Century Buddhist temple nestled in the lush greenery of South Korea's Palgongsan mountain.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The yard was paved with black cinder, and there was no greenery at all except a few gingko trees in postmodern tubs, placed at dramatic intervals.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Of these, indeed, the growth is luxuriant, and the path which leads down from the high-road to the cottage is cut through what might be called a grove of these leafy greeneries.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
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 Susan Coolidge
The way into the heart of the city led among its statues and greeneries.
From The Story of a Life by J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge) Ellis
At home they had had some lilac bushes and a row of peonies; here were acres of greeneries, filled with flowers of gorgeous and unimaginable splendor, and rare plants from every part of the world.
From Samuel the Seeker by Upton Sinclair
Flask Walk, which leads out of the high street among old houses and greeneries, brings us to the shadowy Well Walk, with its overarching trees and with many living memories masoned into its dead walls.
From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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