pine
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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
A menu, she argued, should not require cooks to spend 18 hours peeling pine nuts simply because the chef wants to demonstrate technical skill.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
A room that smells like citrus, pine, or flowers is often associated with cleanliness.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
This would be an idyllic scene were it not for the blackened pine and oak trees all around, the legacy of a devastating recent wildfire.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
But he missed the pine trees that surrounded the cabin.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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 coastline is lined with maritime pines, originally planted under Napoleon III to shield local villages from advancing dunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Just tall oaks and pines, not burning, lining the endless road.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
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
She pined away sitting on the ground out-of-doors where she could watch him, turning her face and following him with her eyes as he journeyed over the sky.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In Lagos, Itoro is still pining for his family.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
I lay awake thinking about her, wondering how she was, and pining, grieving.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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