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In rural areas, if a tree falls onto the power lines, it can cause a blackout for one village, sometimes several, because there is no backup.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
They were young offensive assistants in Cleveland, Atlanta and San Francisco and both represent branches of the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Birds are a highly specialized branch of the dinosaur family tree, with a history stretching deep into the Mesozoic Era.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ms. Noonan describes 9/11 as a dark ring in the trunk of a tree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ahead, a fallen tree spanned the width of the river, creating a natural bridge.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Hargrave, who works at a law firm in New Orleans, wanted to tell his driver that seven trees was overkill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"The area is covered mainly by casuarina trees and is not a dense forest. It is also close to a state highway."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Only pine trees and rock faces are visible as you approach it by boat.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Danger lurked in the shady groves of avocado trees that stretched on the mountainsides as far as the eye could see.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The trees in the gardens, they are shaking, Elizabeth,” he said.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
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
When he barked treed a couple of minutes later, it was in the woods the other side of the corn patch.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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
This treeing of energy led in turn to a search for more profitable market crops.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
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