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trunks



NOUN
Bermuda shorts
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In Long Beach, cars lined up Saturday at a Peninsula parking lot as fire department workers loaded sandbags into trunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Positioned inside the moving vehicle and zooming in, Ray’s camera captures what becomes a blur of foliage, trunks and limbs before the opening credits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Detailed observations and measurements showed that the monkeys can nevertheless bend parts of their feet enough to climb narrow vertical tree trunks while seeking food, hiding or finding places to sleep.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

So they lifted her onto a makeshift raft made of banana trunks, and carried her through the rushing water towards safety.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

There are old, broad fir trunks with knobby twists in their bark.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day


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