pine
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According to People, Love and his wife, Jacquelyne Piesen, arranged for 6 acres surrounding their Incline Village property to be protected from development, helping preserve the towering pine trees and wildlife that characterize the area.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Here, Moore shows reverence not only for her own craft, but for all the hopeful idealists who pine to know what it feels like to lose yourself in someone, or something, else.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Maya and I spent a lot of time under a pine tree making fairy houses and using our imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Terpenes such as pinene from pine trees, for example, can participate in reactions that generate tiny airborne particles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He must have been feeling particularly nasty that night, because he’d combined pine sap with the knots.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
“The potential loss of so many mature Torrey pines is heartbreaking,” Channel Islands National Park Supt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Maurin didn’t have insurance for his pines, having tried to hedge his risk over the years by purchasing plots in different parts of the forest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Bordeaux region has slowed rural building too, but fire danger from the pines remains extremely high, said Claire Aragau, the professor at the Paris School of Urban Planning who led the study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ahead, the pines towered up, promising long, cool pools of shade.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
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And during their down years, Knicks die-hards pined for LeBron James or Kevin Durant to ride in to the rescue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Yet he felt compelled to hold a news conference at the Bears training camp in Lake Forest, Ill., to explain why he pined for playing in, say, Minnesota.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025
Yet, there is one thing that Manilow has always pined for and now inspires some irrational fears: a Broadway show.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Several residents still pined for a separate state, leading India’s Parliament to establish Sikh- and Hindu-dominated states in the north, respectively recognized as Punjab and Haryana, by 1966.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023
We’d sung along with any group or singer who joined us through speakers as the bass boomed low and the treble pined high.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Before many learned Walter might be interested in selling the team quickly, Kushner and Iger, already pining for an NBA franchise, jumped at the opportunity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Instead, young women are pining for throwback, off-road SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
He had obviously never stopped pining for his own home and master; although he ate well and his coat was glossy with health, he never maintained anything but a dignified, unyielding distance.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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