hickory
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I like their sandwiches, or the hickory burger with cheese, and there’s good French fries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
Beyond the fields, a mile or more away from the sea, rose a forest of oak, chestnut, and hickory, open and park-like, the underbrush kept down by expert annual burning.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“I estimated through my work that it would literally take centuries for native forests” full of oaks, walnuts, hickories and tulip poplars to return, he says.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 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
More southern — and less colorful — species like oaks and hickories may march north, eventually replacing the maples and other exhibitionists.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
I made a sketch of the farm on my road map, and put x’s where the hickories were.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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