Thesaurus results for PLAYGROUND

playground

noun

Definition of playground

as in playland

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Recent Examples of playground The playground is less playground, more sprawling treehouse, complete with climbing structures, waterslides, and two toddler-friendly pools. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026 The development also would include a 17-acre community park with a playground, athletic fields and other amenities, as well as retail space. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The middle box, for instance, was correlated with a playground in East London. — Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026 Some of the builders were delighted by the strange setup — the sleeping alcoves for him and Lakofski, the balustrade inspired by the chain link of a nearby playground (and, maybe, a little Frank Gehry). — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for playground

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Noun

In the playland of frozen drinks, though, ice plays an all-the-more crucial role.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 10 June 2026
The $50 million playland opened in miserable Memorial Day weekend weather, but 12,000 visitors still showed up.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026

Definition of playland

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Mere days after the fire, Jalapeños in midtown (yes, really) stepped in to fill the void, with the long-running taqueria suddenly finding itself a hotbed for upstart local artists on its arboreal 21st Street patio.

— Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Over the past few years, Dallas has been transformed into a hotbed for the financial services sector, with pledges for massive offices and headcounts coming from firms like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.

— Ian Thomas, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of hotbed

Noun

Kensington Market, a predominantly Jewish district in the early 20th century, is now a hive of independent shops, cafes and restaurants.

— Michael Kaminer, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026
However, what hasn’t changed is that Hollywood (not a place but a swarming hive with no geographical boundaries) depends on the interaction of its human elements which is conducted under great financial and emotional pressure.

— Rick Nicita, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of hive

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Zhangyuan, once a playground for celebrities and the leisure class almost a century ago, has been transformed into an outdoor retail hot spot with stand-alone garden villa houses with Western elements.

— Denni Hu, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
Drivers can also add optional features like a head-up display or Wi-Fi hot spot to enhance its ownership experience.

— Charles Singh, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of hot spot

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Meanwhile, Argon agents have been working to migrate C/C++ codebases to Rust across Google, including thousands of lines in the core re2 and libgav1 libraries and more than 800,000 lines in the Fuchsia OS Zircon kernel.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 30 Sep. 2026
What has that been like knowing that there are kernels of somebody’s real story in this fictional story?

— Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of kernel

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Otthon Centrum analyst Gábor Soóki-Tóth said Tihany is one of the most expensive places in Hungary to buy a vacation property — with prices outstripping those in the nation's capital.

— Lucy Handley, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the island's capital city, Naha, early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of capital

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Not to be outdone, Celsius, another prominent energy drink, has partnered with ESPN to sponsor College GameDay, the hub of the let’s-have-fun-and-watch-TV-sports-all-day movement.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
DriVe2X sees potential applications in mobility hubs, apartment buildings, and single-family houses.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026

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