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tree

[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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Williams said the bus "flipped a few times, we nearly hit a tree".

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

Quips fell out of her like apples from a tree, ripening and landing at just the right time in any conversation.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

For nearly 100 years the industry’s growth put more people in the tree business and helped those already in it to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

However, light at that wavelength did not produce the same response in tree shrews.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

Clare scaled the tree to meet her, carefully stretching from bough to bough, then ducking into the leafy cage where she was riding out the storm.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

As the late British economist John Maynard Keynes reminded us, trees do not grow to the sky.

From MarketWatch Aug. 29, 2026

Video recordings show wild western chimpanzees, usually adult males, throwing rocks at specific trees and repeatedly returning to these trees to perform the behavior.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

“Over the years, we have received valuable assistance from people with an interest in genealogy and family history who have taken the time to research family trees and share information with our investigators,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

First protected in 1864, Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains is internationally acclaimed for its spectacular granite cliffs, glaciers, waterfalls, sequoia trees and wildlife.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

I’d plant dozens and dozens of cottonwood trees.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The treed “Woodland Garden” to the west, with black tupelo and swamp white oaks, gives way to a “Perennial Meadow,” whose asters, purple beebalms and orange butterfly weed were chosen for their chromatic effect.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 24, 2025

The cattle, which were tracked from June to August over two years, had access to 625 acres of grasslands and treed areas ranging in elevation from 600 to 2,028 feet.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2024

Set in an especially cheerless pocket of Southern California, where high-voltage lines loom over the sparsely treed landscape, it opens in the summer.

From New York Times Mar. 2, 2023

Some farmers positioned portable wind breaks and used treed areas to protect their herds from potentially deadly winds, said Karin Schmid, beef production and extension lead at the Alberta Beef Producers industry group.

From Reuters Dec. 23, 2022

Up she climbed into the branches, treed like a fox, waiting for what would happen next.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

By 10 a.m. the dogs didn’t appear any closer to treeing whatever it was they were chasing.

From Washington Times Apr. 3, 2016

Well-fed raccoons lay trails to nearby trees, which the hounds are allowed to bark up only briefly to minimize sight treeing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jenkins, the special counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating the case of Joe McCarthy v. the Army, had the air of an hound treeing an coon.

From Time Magazine Archive

He went to work then, trailing and treeing the squirrels that Little Arliss was scaring up off the ground.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

The fact of him treeing for Turk don't prove that he's afraid of a Dog; lots of animals does that 'cause they don't want to be bothered with his noise.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton




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