birch
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Chinese white-birch plywood sandwiches sheets of white poplar wood between outer layers of birch veneer, which is peeled from logs that are typically harvested in Siberian forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Among the evidence they gathered were purchase orders for birch plywood emailed from Boise’s Pompano office, including some that arrived after investigators conducted their raid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
At this time of year tree pollen, and particularly birch, is the main reason why people may be suffering from hay fever.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
As Torak followed the sound, the ground got stonier, and the trees shrank to waist-high birch and willow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
In my Connecticut backyard, I’ve been reclaiming the turf under my maples and birches by planting native ferns, geraniums and woodland asters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Around 700,000 years ago, dense forests of pines, birches, and chestnut relatives gave way to more open habitats with larger patches of grassland.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024
On another visit to the North Cascades, I saw vine maples alternating with birches and alders in deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
The mountains here have been gouged by heavy machinery and stripped of sugar maples, yellow birches and other trees native to this stretch of Mineral County.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022
The birches and wild grasses vibrated with impossible color after their time in the burned land, Edenic and fortifying.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
If this be true, I feel sure that Mr. Urban's stars glistened on eucalyptical roses whilst potted canopied moonlit sprays birched on every garden of gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Great-Grandfather birched Grandfather for sneaking into the hayloft with a yellow, blue and green wrapped copy of Deadwood Dick on Deck, worrywarts have viewed U.S. reading habits with alarm.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Britain, by long tradition the novelist cuts his teeth on the old school in order to bite the hand that birched him, but the school novel is a comparative rarity in U.S. letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
He himself once boasted that sixteen of the bishops who then occupied the bench had been birched with his "little rod".
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
And your switch doubtless blooms as it did long ago; I have heard that recently you birched the Muscovites.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes
Although birching was finally banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws.
From Time Magazine Archive
The European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He could, not endure another public expulsion, or even another birching; he could not endure the cold faces of even his best friends.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
"Good, then he goes also with us to Heidelberg, and if he be not found guilty of more devilish arts, he will nevertheless get his quantum satis of birching for ridiculing the district magistrate."
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
They have not as much as had a birching; and I say that the college masters ought to be hooted.
From The Channings by Mrs. Henry Wood
