pine
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Hundreds of firefighters have over the past few days been battling blazes in the southwest of France famous for its sand dunes, pine trees, and oyster shacks.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
But the mixture of "tinder dry" pine and intense heat helped upend things on day five when the family was awoken on Friday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Boreal forests are also supposed to burn on an infrequent basis, in order to open up certain pine cones and spread their seeds, or to clear out lower tree branches.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
But the more overloaded their minds become, the more they pine for a hands-on task—ideally one so noisy that nothing can interrupt their precious solitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Among the evergreen pine trees, Nazis had stealthily planted larch trees.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
"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
Rich Klaben, a dealer with Ford and Jeep-Ram stores in Kent, Ohio, pines for the smaller Ford Ranger that his family dealership used to sell in droves in the 1980s and 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
From the pontoon, she pointed out the marshy shore and sea of pines at stake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Volunteers have been key to managing the wider heath, cutting gorse and heather in winter and removing pines.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
I followed them, expecting they’d lead me to the pines toward the creek, but they stopped at the road.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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He pined for more: “I’d be micro-editing PowerPoint presentations and thinking, ‘What am I doing with my life?’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
"Please tell me she's real," pined one on Threads.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
She worshiped the Dresden Room’s residents Marty and Elayne, and pined for a similar classy intimacy at shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
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
The most visionary of the brain busters pined for the day when a pilot could take one of their creations for a hypersonic joy ride: Mach 5 or faster.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Instead, young women are pining for throwback, off-road SUVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
Their plight at the hugely unpopular and vast former athletics track is well documented, with fans pining for Upton Park's intimidating atmosphere.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
And in an especially disturbing fundraising email sent in the very early morning hours of Feb. 13, Trump evoked the image of a lonely lover pining for company.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2026
“More cruel than ever. Don’t you see how I’m pining away?” and Laurie gave his broad chest a sounding slap and heaved a melodramatic sigh.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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