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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
green .
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Examples
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Around dead elm, in greened up areas of the woods.
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Around dead elm, in greened up areas of the woods.
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I think suggesting this process can come close to approximating being "greened" is largely misleading, or far too optimistic, or perhaps both.
Kevin Grandia: Top Man in Washington Slams Canada's Tar Sands 2010
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I think suggesting this process can come close to approximating being "greened" is largely misleading, or far too optimistic, or perhaps both.
Kevin Grandia: Top Man in Washington Slams Canada's Tar Sands 2010
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I think it was supposed to represent coal that had been "greened," but to me, it looked more like a blob of radioactive dessert.
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While some doubt whether late capitalism can ever be sufficiently "greened" to forestall climate change and other global calamities, many embrace the notion that a more widely held environmental ethic can be an important component of moving the current paradigm toward something more just and sustainable.
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Brude i am completely on board with using it as a acting prop but i wonder how they can digitally alter the appearance of the wheels without them having been also greened out? maybe i do not understand cgi but i thought in order to place a digitally rendered overlay over something that appears on film it has to be 'greened' or blued? i think i saw that somewhere
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Then Santa Monica also had, back when we 'greened' the hotel, an organization called Sustainable Works, which is still around today except back then it was free.
Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Ecopreneur Deirdre Wallace's Ambrose Hotel 2008
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Also, it is often difficult to make a match between centralized World Bank or institutional financing, even if "greened", and the local institutions that are crucial to effective implementation of resource conservation and environmental standards.
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Then did each page as I turned it over bring some fresh recollection of one's unspeakable sense of newness and desolation; the haunting fear of doing something ludicrous; the morbid dread of chaff and of being "greened," which even in my time had, happily, supplanted the old terrors of being tossed in a blanket or roasted at a fire.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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