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Recent Examples of arboretumThen, the whole dish — married with bison sweetbreads — is roasted and presented in a clear bowl to resemble an arboretum.—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025 Carrie Tauscher, the arboretum’s director, stands amidst it all, peering up into the canopy to look for damage.—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 7 July 2025 The Tree Walk will bring you through over 150 varieties of trees, displaying the park’s arboretum of rare and native trees.—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025 Following the ceremony, the newlyweds and their some 180 guests celebrated at a reception at Rosine Hall, the arboretum’s 5,000-square-foot event space, according to People.—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for arboretum
Now, the decimation of the environment and indigenous people across the world, from the palm oil plantations of Indonesia to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reached the shores of Great Nicobar.
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M. Rajshekhar,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
According to the San Diego Zoo, most pygmy hippos living in American zoos have ancestry that ties back to Billy, a pygmy given to President Calvin Coolidge in 1927 from American tire mogul Harvey Firestone, who owned a rubber plantation in Liberia.
Habitat loss has been insidious — croplands have been stripped of their bordering hedgerows and old fields and woodlots have been converted to housing developments.
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Bruce Beehler,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Aug. 2025
The next morning Brooks and a buddy glassed the woodlot before moving closer.
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