lumber
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Volunteer Nathan Kehn readies a cat for transport after catching it in the lumber yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
After she’s spayed and vaccinated, the cost covered by L.A.-based nonprofit FixNation, Navratil holds her at home for another overnight before returning her to the lumber yard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Peeples, whose grandfather entered the timber business in South Carolina in the 1950s, remembers a time when pulpwood was so profitable it didn’t pay to wait for lumber, and young trees were clear-cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Greer told the New York Times on Saturday that the Trump administration offered to eliminate a 10-percent tariff on softwood lumber, and reduce the 25-percent autos tariff.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Cut trees, cane; plowed till he could hardly lift his arms; plucked chickens and cotton; hauled lumber, grain, quarry rocks and stock.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing lumber
"Of Mice and Men"
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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