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Recent Examples of playground
Ice sculptors come from around the world to work on the frosty playground.
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Christa Swanson, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Fortunately for anyone interested in exploring in the winter landscape, the backyard or a neighborhood playground is a good place to start.
—Susan Koch, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026
Studded with private island resorts and crisscrossed by megayachts, the British Virgin Islands have long been considered the Caribbean playground of the well-to-do.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Wells Park also has pickleball and basketball courts, a workout area, a children’s playground and lots of open space with grass and trees to relax or take your lunch to enjoy.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for playground
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While there are moss species in the desert and on snowy mountaintops, the warm, moist environments of the Southeastern United States are a moss playland.—
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Kids and families can enjoy free live music, along with an inflatable playland and other features.—
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Part tour guide, part dream coach, Ney’s job was to explain how such a gargantuan feat was even possible, especially built on a strata of unstable mud near a hotbed of seismic activity.—
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Authorities say the shooters had spent much of November in the Philippines, an area known as a hotbed for terrorists.—
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If outside is a hive of activity, inside the vibe is calm and refined, and the guests—decidedly well-heeled.—
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On Tuesday afternoon, the sidewalk in front of the facility had become a hive of activity – including the return of Nick Shirley – as media and Shirley supporters watched adults escorting children in and out.—
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Sweeping changes could be in place within weeks for at least two Fort Lauderdale entertainment districts after a New Year’s Eve shooting at the beach and another three days earlier at a downtown hot spot.—
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At its peak, about 80 breweries operated in this mercantile hot spot.—
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Godfall tells the story of a small Nebraska town, which becomes the center of the world when a giant alien crash lands out of the sky beside it.—
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Mitsubishi is looking to capitalize on rising power needs from data centers, manufacturing, as well as LNG exports, by expanding in the the world's largest gas market, citing domestic consumption, production, exports, and further demand growth.—
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Waymon Cox, an assistant park superintendent, compared the diamond to a corn kernel.—
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It’s served alongside a slab of cold sweet potato and garnished with hefty kernels of the dent corn called choclo.—
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Community development financial institutions are banks, credit unions, loan funds and capital funds that have a mission to provide help to underserved, often low-income or rural, communities.—
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School can be an awful place, where social capital is built on a person’s acceptance by a group, and any difference is sniffed out and mocked, sometimes worse.—
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Fort Worth as a whole has made a strong push to be recognized as a hub for film production.—
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Among other speakers at the Summit was Zach Kokoloff, senior vice president/asset management at Hackman Capital Partners which operates Radford Studio Center in Studio City, a 55-acre hub of stages, offices and support staff.—
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“Playground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playground. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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