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[wood] / wʊd /


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In the Women's Underhand Chop, where competitors stand on a piece of wood and chop between their feet, she cut through 11in of white pine in 21.28 seconds.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

There's no mobile phone signal and food is cooked over a wood fire.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

In the filmmaker’s imagination, the trick of hiding Greek warriors inside a wood contraption was more believable if it looked like a waterlogged offering to a god left by a departed army.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The body scrub areas and dry saunas feature Japanese Hinoki wood also imported from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

“You need a hammer to pound the stakes. A hatchet, if you need more stakes. Or wood to build a fire.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Bernard Roche, a 75-year-old former lifeguard, evacuated his cabin in the woods on Wednesday.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Director Sam Raimi’s original 1981 “The Evil Dead,” filmed in the Tennessee woods by a bunch of hyperactive dreamers, has since morphed into a monolithic franchise that mainly serves to keep the lights on.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

Gust Wahl, 84, paid some $600 a month last winter to heat his home in the woods outside town.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

"When you see it, you won't believe it, actually, the quality of woods, the quality of the materials, the quality of the engines," he added.

From Barron's Jun. 19, 2026

If he made a game of it, like playing house in the woods, she could lie down in the shelter and sleep while he walked to the bridge and back.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret




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