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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

“I see a ‘No Trespassing’ sign, I don’t do it,” she explains, recalling how her wife might pick fruit off a neighbor’s tree if the bough hangs over the fence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

Freed of the weight, he swung down to the hemlock bough in only a few steps.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

At Cold Comfort Farm “dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The men sit on rugs beneath the wide boughs of a tree, while two women sit on mats in the shade of a nearby veranda, as goats and chickens roam the compound.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

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

From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2024

In outdoor pots, red dogwood stems and evergreen boughs bring structure, while violas, pansies and ornamental kale add unflinching color, shrugging off light frosts.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

"The coming of the spring upon the boughs," was the last line.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez