palm
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Late last month, an Indonesia-based wildlife foundation shared footage showing an orangutan writhing on the ground on a palm oil plantation in West Kalimantan, one of Indonesia's hardest-hit provinces.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
If you have a palm tree, have a professional remove dead fronds before storms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
In this context, medbeds seemed conceptually like fun oddities, akin more to palm readings than to predatory disinformation.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Find insight on gold and silver futures, London mining stocks, palm oil and more in the latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The ocean looks like normal ocean, and the palm trees look like normal palm trees, but the pastel pink building is intriguing.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Around half of the date palms here have no fruit at all.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It’s made of the joy-buzzer energy coming into your palms through the rack-and-pinion steering, the wheel gains heft and braille-like sensitivity as cornering loads and slip angles increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Wiseman said the solar eclipse was particularly poignant: "I'm actually in chills right now just thinking about it, my palms are sweating."
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026
Hipolito leaned forward in his chair, his face falling into his palms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
She held out her palms and shot two more laser beams into the giant robot pelican suit.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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It was his hard work that won the ball back for Arsenal's opening goal and his cross was palmed into Saka for the second.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Bayern trailed 2-1 in the shootout when a flying Kahn threw his bear-like paws in front of Zlatko Zahovic's effort, then palmed Amedeo Carboni's strike on to the crossbar.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Anthony Gordon scored four times in Newcastle's 6-1 rout of Qarabag and the England forward threatened an immediate equaliser with a stinging strike that Gianluigi Donnarumma palmed away.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
That goal looked to have sealed the points from Juve but Baldanzi quickly halved the deficit after Michele Di Gregorio palmed away Evan Ferguson's low drive.
From Barron's ● Dec. 20, 2025
Shadow palmed it in his right hand, classic palm, then produced it from between his third and fourth fingers.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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But on the bestsellers display at your favorite local indie, it represents the small pleasure of palming a near-pocket-size book in your hands.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"For me, it's ridiculous," the goalkeeper added, taking a break from palming away shots struck by friends wearing colorful Brazil and Barcelona jerseys.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Moments later, Bachmann thwarted Thomas-Asante again, this time palming away his goal-bound header, before he saw another effort sail over the bar.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2024
In a free-flowing first half, Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya made a great save in the 38th by diving to his right and palming away a shot from Brennan Johnson after a quick counter by Spurs.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
He spent the next hour demonstrating basic skills like palming a playing card or performing the French Drop, a maneuver in which a small object seemingly disappears when passing from one hand to the other.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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