pine
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Molecular fingerprinting revealed compounds associated with pine trees, showing that every sample was dominated by heated coniferous resin or coniferous tar, also called pitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
A few days later, they were both in the aerie, perched high in a Jeffrey pine overlooking the picturesque lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Barth said replacing flammable pine forests with mixed woodlands would help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
By contrast, logistics is pretty mundane; the big contractors don’t pine for contracts to build oiler ships, cranes, or commissaries.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
She gasped for air, writhing and clawing at the dry dirt and pine needles.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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“Invitation” begins with “Circus,” with Kelly made up as a clown who pines for a beautiful performer, danced by Claire Sombert, who is herself in love with a chiseled aerialist, played by Igor Youskevitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"We're dealing with a very dense stand of closely packed pines," firefighter Captain Wilfried Schneider told AFP, describing a fire of "rare" intensity.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Any justice who pines for the spotlight can give as many interviews and speak at as many law schools as he or she likes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“We’re hoping that there’s going to be a quick recovery path,” Ethan McKinley, superintendent of Channel Islands National Park, said of the pines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
There were long brown mountains and a few pines and far-off forests of beech-trees on some of the mountainsides.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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But there’s one confection I’ve pined for, one tied to the memory of my mother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
And you can expect more such details to surface as we finally get the Succession epilogue its fans have pined for, with a Tom Wambsgans type in charge.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026
"Please tell me she's real," pined one on Threads.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
Mr. Butzel told The New York Times in 2000 that as a lawyer’s son he “felt obligated to be a lawyer, but it was nothing I pined to do.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
The intervening year helped her make the transition to everything but the Virginia heat; many was the night she pined for White Sulphur Springs’ brisk summer nights.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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She’s a poet, and I think she really understands girlhood — the pining and the wanting to be accepted — and she does it in such a beautiful and majestic way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
“Audiences are pining for novelty, especially younger demographics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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