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tree

[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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According to police, Juarez, who is from Guatemala and has worked in construction and lived in Michigan for years, fled in his car before crashing into a tree.

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

In a game where the decision tree expands frighteningly fast, both man and machine are only beginning to explore the full extent of a game that has been around for centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

The scandal began when a photograph was published of Salt secretly filming Boro from behind a tree at their training ground before the play-off semi-final.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Researchers examined where individual plague genomes appeared on the bacterium's evolutionary tree and used that information to refine the likely dates of many samples.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Another tree broke his momentum, only for a rattling heartbeat, before he was whisked back into the open air.

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

BF Hicks, a local lawyer whose family has owned land in the county since the 1800s, says he watched neighbours sign 30-year leases with solar companies and bulldozers clear centuries-old oak trees near his property.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

You got the wind coming through the trees that they planted.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2026

There are also around 16 fruit trees on the property—including orange, tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, and lime trees—as well as a brick-enclosed vegetable garden.

From MarketWatch Sep. 23, 2026

These surge for tens of kilometers, splintering trees, igniting forests and burying the remnants beneath hot ash and pumice.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

You blink in the sudden brightness, the shade trees gone.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Officials were alerted to two separate fires Saturday evening in heavily treed areas of the Cedar Canyon Wildlife Management Area and Carter Canyon Public Land.

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 2022

Rearing back and looking as important as Rowdy did when he had treed something, Grandpa said, “Sure I know something about those monkeys. That’s what grandpas are for, isn’t it? To know things for boys.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" 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

Went hunting on the Neck, and visited the plantation there, and killed a fox after treeing it three times and chasing it three hours.

From From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services by William M. (William Makepeace) Thayer




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