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One of them, photographer Tim Laman, had tied a line to an arrow and shot it over a high bough.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024

The inquiry is perhaps the most substantial regulatory consequence to date of X, which has scaled back its content moderation policies since Mr. Musk bough the service, once known as Twitter, last year.

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

Stuntman Hurd McClellan had strapped on a bulletproof vest and swung like a pendulum suspended from a tree bough as news accounts said Semmelmeyer shot him several times without mishap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

There wasn't a single twinkling light or even a scrap of a pine bough, all the way from the subway station to her building.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2022

A perfect cube five feet high, the altar in our camp was capped with a triumvirate of carefully selected pointed stones, above which rose a ten-foot wooden pole crowned with an elegant juniper bough.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Not far away, I had tangled a dozen feet of line in the boughs of a hemlock tree—for the third time that morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

And although their shaggy boughs somewhat resemble teddy bears, they’re sharp if you step too close.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The ancient Lady Jane Grey Oak in Leicester's Bradgate Park, and a cedar with low-sweeping boughs where The Beatles were photographed at London's Chiswick House, completed the top five in the rankings.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025

They were London planetrees, and no birds flitted in their boughs.

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

He and Harry were building a little fence of sharp poles clear around the house, weaving it together with willow boughs that crissed and crossed and wound together.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen