oak
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Propellers were being chiseled from oak, which absorbs radar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
With its tar-soaked rigging, creaking oak deck and 50 spruce oars, Draken Harald Harfagre is the largest modern replica of a Viking ship.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
“They’ll come over and they’ll be like, ‘I see the oak tree’s doing well.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
There is no oak panelling, no green leather-bound legal textbooks like the courtrooms you see on TV dramas.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Under an oak tree, you take a long drink from your water bottle, its overlapping stickers bumpy under your sweaty palms.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The lifespan of England’s quintessential oaks, meanwhile, could dramatically shorten to 100-150 years in hotter weather compared with the current 400 years or more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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
California oaks showed a different seasonal schedule but the same overall pattern.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
