oak
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Meanwhile, the kitchen features granite countertops and oak cabinetry and opens into a dining area.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
This would be an idyllic scene were it not for the blackened pine and oak trees all around, the legacy of a devastating recent wildfire.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Sork’s lab, along with the Nature Conservancy, is sequencing oak DNA to identify which trees are best built to survive a hotter, drier California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Without thought I circled back around and stopped my bike at the familiar old oak tree at the end of my block, its far-reaching limbs casting much-appreciated shade.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
A mother-daughter team called the Los Angeles Humane Society had given away more than 1,000 coast live oaks in Altadena and Santa Monica by the end of last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The area around present-day Shangri-La began to grow rich as Drolma’s family and other ethnic Tibetans jumped into harvesting the mushrooms, which grow naturally on the oaks and pines of the Eastern Himalayas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
They usually nest in cavities that form in large, old trees like oaks.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
He stands over you like this little mountain, and he’s got this dark beardy shrubbery all around the peak, and arms like pines, and legs like oaks, and feet the size of small lakes.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
