oak
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Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Propellers were being chiseled from oak, which absorbs radar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Ancient oak and beech trees, rare heathland and even wetland have been devastated by the recent fire that swept through the New Forest, a survey has found.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“They’ll come over and they’ll be like, ‘I see the oak tree’s doing well.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The island was barely as large as a swimming pool, but the tree was a gargantuan thing, broad as an oak and three times as high.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The same goes for beech trees and oaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They usually nest in cavities that form in large, old trees like oaks.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
California oaks showed a different seasonal schedule but the same overall pattern.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Beyond that they came again to a belt of trees: tall oaks, for the most part, with here and there an elm tree or an ash.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
