as in conservatory
a glass-enclosed building for growing plants needed to move the plants into the greenhouse before the first frost killed them

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Recent Examples of greenhouse Oh, and there’s even a goat and poultry yard and a 1,600-square-foot greenhouse. Tj MacIas 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025 Green tomato plants stretch upward row after row in sprawling high-tech greenhouses covering nearly six acres in the central state of Queretaro, among the top 10 tomato producing states in Mexico. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 July 2025 Climate control systems can monitor and regulate all the inputs in modern greenhouses and hoop houses. Julie Weed, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025 Crowley noted that Lithium Americas has worked with Indigenous communities near the mine to study cultural artifacts and is offering to build projects worth millions of dollars for the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe, such as a community center and greenhouse. Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for greenhouse
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conservatory
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  • The one downside was the conservatory was older and they were not equipped to deal with the intense heat.
    Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
  • In the film, Andrew is constantly at odds with Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a jazz instructor at a prestigious New York City music conservatory who tests the limits of his students with his mentally and verbally abusive teaching methods.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025

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“Greenhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenhouse. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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