hickory
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And Joq is genuinely fascinated by the way hickory smoke mellows and rounds out a pungent blue cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
The kitchen also follows the same aesthetic as the rest of the home and is adorned in wood cabinetry, a wooden island, and hand-hewn hickory flooring.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
Customers are increasingly being lured by brands like TimberTech, which dispense with wood altogether in favor of polyvinyl chloride patterned to resemble mahogany, teak, or hickory.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Adding natural smoke flavorings derived from hickory or mesquite can also give alternative meats a similar aroma.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
The tablecloth came out the other end of the mangle, and I dropped it into a hickory basket.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Playing with hickories in primitive conditions would give us a true sense of what golf was like before course designers reshaped landscapes and mowers meticulously smoothed out their surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
On big old oaks or hickories, the resulting branch flagging is unsightly, but it’s a temporary eyesore that the tree will outgrow.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2020
Surrounded by tall hickories, ash and oak, it is mostly covered in shade, a condition not ideal for grass.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2019
Its steep walls are lined with hardwoods, oaks, hickories and maples still dropping amber leaves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2016
They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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