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- noun Plural form of
playground .
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Examples
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(You might not need to explain playgrounds are for the children …)
Writing Workshop: What are YOU Working on? | Write to Done 2008
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Every day, there is that risk of harm, and hurt, at workplaces, at schools, in playgrounds, in the streets, and sadly, unknowingly, even within the sanctity of the home.
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He sat there looking through the pictures they gave him of happy children playing in playgrounds that, to his knowledge, still existed.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Now, I’m aware of the fact that, at the time of its release, children sang this hit song in playgrounds all over France, oblivious to Gainsbourg’s blindingly obvious double entendres.
slim, sexy en druk 2007
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Now, I’m aware of the fact that, at the time of its release, children sang this hit song in playgrounds all over France, oblivious to Gainsbourg’s blindingly obvious double entendres.
poupée de cire 2007
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You can’t have slides or seesaws in playgrounds any more.
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You can’t have slides or seesaws in playgrounds any more.
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The playgrounds were a segregation thing, because they had playgrounds for whites and drinking fountains for white and not for blacks.
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For one thing, because there were writers of such trash, who, themselves comfortably lodged, have not red blood enough in their veins to feel for those to whom everything is denied, and not sense enough to make out the facts when they see them, or they would not call playgrounds, schoolhouses, and better tenements abortive measures.
I go to War at last, and sow the Seed of Future Campaigns 1901
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For one thing, because there were writers of such trash, who, themselves comfortably lodged, have not red blood enough in their veins to feel for those to whom everything is denied, and not sense enough to make out the facts when they see them, or they would not call playgrounds, schoolhouses, and better tenements “abortive measures.”
The Making of an American Riis, Jacob A 1901
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