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tree

[tree] / tri /
NOUN
large plant enclosed in bark and shedding leaves
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If a tree falls in a forest and you miss a post about it, it still makes a sound.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

One branch of the crocodile family tree evolved the ability to tolerate hotter conditions than the broader lineage could withstand at other times.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

One tree here or there won’t do much damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A tree that wasn’t board-feet of lumber was a waste, a landscape that wasn’t plowed was a waste, a river that wasn’t diverted to irrigate was a waste.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

He unslung his quiver and bow and laid them against the tree.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

"The view is beautiful. They're bigger than trees," 23-year-old Toukta Phonsala told AFP inside her wooden stilt house in Dak Wai village, her baby bouncing on her lap.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

The rotating platform prevented the trees from receiving a consistent directional signal from gravity, while the surrounding light eliminated cues about which way they should grow.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

The experiment began with young poplar trees positioned horizontally.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

"Also it really vibes with the Pacific Northwest, which has trees and forests and a little bit more of an outdoor vibe," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

You step off the sidewalk, slip between the trees, follow the almost-path where other sets of feet have pressed the grass down before you.

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

It turned out that his dogs had treed a raccoon in the backyard shortly after he’d left for work.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

I went right back to the bur oak tree where Rowdy had treed the monkey and started looking it over.

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

Cracked separators permit "treeing" between plates, with a consequent short circuit.

From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte


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