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[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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"We might have something here," Pete says, as a white glow appears on the thermal image beneath a tree.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

That’s why the movie ends with a little flower blooming in a dried tree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

She was found clinging to a tree in late September and tranquilised by a rescue team who administered oxygen and intravenous fluids before moving her to the rehabilitation centre.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

At the end of September, in fact, a powerful nor’easter toppled a huge tree on my property, thankfully missing my house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I’m impressed that the two of you managed to find this many idiots who wanted to do this,” says Zara, stepping farther away from the water, into the shade of a tree.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Officials have reported two deaths related to the storm, both from trees falling on homes -- one near Pensacola in Florida and another in Birmingham, Alabama.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

She added that older trees like the Bendy Tree are part of a community's culture, providing shade and stories.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

There’s a lot Tom Nancy likes about his new life as a human boy: sandwiches, climbing trees, dessert after dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Against this shimmering backdrop, the bright yellow branches appeared to rise from the seafloor like glowing trees surrounded by stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

I’d plant dozens and dozens of cottonwood trees.

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

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

The team quickly rallied, secured Ciarlo’s dogs and released their own hounds, which treed a young male they named Orion.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

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

"They won't hurt Hodor," he assured his treed friends.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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 duty of an outpost, when the enemy comes on, is to go in, treeing it, and keeping ourselves not exposed.

From Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat




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