plains
Britishplural noun
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Satellites have photographed the far side before, but the astronauts were the first human eyes to see some parts of the far side's surface and its vast craters and lava plains.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026
McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Ice plains have been identified beneath many other Antarctic glaciers.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
The term mesteño, meaning stray or wild, became, in cowboy-speak, mustang — that legendary, free-roaming denizen of the high plains.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Each year around June when the rains came, its waters would gather in might, churning with rich silt, flooding the plains, and bestowing abundant harvests for farmers and catches for fishermen.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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