Examples of annual ring in a Sentence
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In the broad scheme of things, the Bulls’ annual ring ceremony doesn’t mean much.
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
Under ideal conditions, trees grow quickly, leaving wide annual rings behind.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
Tree rings are particularly diligent record-keepers, recording rainfall in their annual rings; ice cores can keep exquisitely detailed accounts of seasonal conditions going back nearly a million years.
—Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
Under ideal conditions, trees grow quickly, leaving wide annual rings behind.
—Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, 8 July 2019
Tree rings are particularly diligent record-keepers, recording rainfall in their annual rings; ice cores can keep exquisitely detailed accounts of seasonal conditions going back nearly a million years.
—Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
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First Known Use
1672, in the meaning defined above
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annual ring
noun
: the layer of wood produced by a single year's growth of a woody plant
called also tree ring
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