saplings
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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
One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Regrown forests, especially with monoculture commercial saplings planted rank and file, may never achieve the splendid complexity of virgin forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Only raccoons are said to live in the Karlshorst buildings and birch saplings are sprouting out of a balcony.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
“We’re going to use the saplings to build a pen for the tykes. It was Vandara’s idea.”
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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