sapling
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The mayor gave each of them a pine sapling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Centuries after a group of travellers planted a sapling and waited to see if it would live, the answer is still there.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
The very first sapling grown from the Sycamore Gap tree was gifted to His Majesty The King last summer and this will be planted for the nation at a later date, the National Trust said.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
It became a sapling, which became a seed.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
And everyone promised to water the saplings faithfully while they are still small and their roots are beginning to reach out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Over-population of deer means they graze on young plants and tree saplings before they ever have a chance to reach maturity.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Then I hid inside a cover of cottonwood saplings and made certain every last ant was gone before I put them on again.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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