plains
Britishplural noun
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Coronado also inadvertently shaped the course of Native American plains culture when Puebloans captured some of his horses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
The others, with their hot deserts and big-sky plains, seem more obvious: Texas, Arizona and California.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
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
He said the count was "going smoothly" across the Himalayan nation, from snowbound mountain regions to the hot plains bordering India.
From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026
She had often studied the map of the United States and crossed its plains, mountains, deserts, and rivers in her imagination.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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