as in lush
covered with a thick, healthy natural growth
the backyard's leafy bushes look nice, but have a tendency to attract deer
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Recent Examples of leafy
Treatments for abnormal ferritin levels may include eating iron-rich foods like lean salmon, leafy green vegetables, and beans.
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
Bowery, a vertical farming startup focused on producing lettuce and other leafy greens, is shutting down, despite having raised more than $700 million in venture capital.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
These Were the Earliest Signs By Alice Oglethorpe While docs generally recommend eating tons of fruits, leafy veggies, and whole grains to offset period symptoms, there’s one nutrient especially that might be worth consuming: calcium.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Nov. 2024
Eat healthy with leafy vegetables and a plethora of fresh fruits and vegetables.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
Bowery, a vertical farming startup focused on producing lettuce and other leafy greens, is shutting down, despite having raised more than $700 million in venture capital.
—Dan Primack, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
These Were the Earliest Signs By Alice Oglethorpe While docs generally recommend eating tons of fruits, leafy veggies, and whole grains to offset period symptoms, there’s one nutrient especially that might be worth consuming: calcium.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 4 Nov. 2024
Eat healthy with leafy vegetables and a plethora of fresh fruits and vegetables.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leafy
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The robes are long and lush and heavy, the score dictates each twist and turn, and the buildings in which these people behave with such petty bitchery feature some of the most stunning Renaissance and Classical architecture.Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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From there, a bridge spans a short ravine into one of the lushest and most wooded portions of the trail.Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Border Patrol wears green, and CBP officers wear blue.Mandi Wright, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
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Donning a shimmering pastel green fringe jacket, the K-pop superstar performed the new tune against a striking backdrop of a desert highway, with the stage adorned with street signs.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2024
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Wade’s grown son took the stage and said that Wade had always put fatherhood before basketball.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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At the same time, her grown child is not wrong for wanting answers today.Sigal Samuel, Vox, 6 Oct. 2024
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States with less dense populations tend to have less traffic, and people in rural communities often live closer to their jobs than those commuting to a city or taking an hourlong subway ride to work, Search Logistics found.Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 18 Nov. 2024
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In the app, the Wildfire Smoke Layer shows where smoke from those fires drifts and how dense that smoke is.Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Leafy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leafy. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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