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tree

[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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“You’re not dealing with the problem as it is,” he says matter of factly, sitting under an olive tree at a cafe in East Hollywood on an unusually scorching fall day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

She issued a temporary order at that time to stop the tree felling though Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Tributes have been paid to a man who died after being hit by a falling tree in Dumfries and Galloway.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Scientists have previously reconstructed ancient solar cycles by studying radiocarbon preserved in tree rings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

One by one, Nine swept them back into satchels, then cinched them up and swung them into the tree hollow behind him, where they landed with a soft thud.

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

The team spotted unusually large, whitish reproductive structures, known as 'stromata', growing from the woody roots of Chinese cork oak trees.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

It said it tests its water twice a year for Legionnaires', and has planted 2,000 trees.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Police forces and councils said they have been dealing with flooding and trees down as Storm Boelo followed Storm Austen over the weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

A neighbor’s flowers are blooming, and on Knight’s property, survivor trees include pomegranate, sapote, finger lime, orange and banana.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

We turned into a driveway beneath shadowy trees.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

“What do you mean, treed somewhere?” he asked.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

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

Last of all, the shoe is put upon a treeing machine, where an iron foot stretches it into precisely the shape of the wooden last on which it was made.

From Makers of Many Things by Eva March Tappan


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