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The easiest way to do this is to assess whether your kitchen cabinets are warm (with red, yellow, or orange undertones), like cherry, oak, hickory, and pine; or cool (with gray undertones), like white oak, ash, maple, or birch cabinetry.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025 -
There are many wood chip flavors on the market, but the most popular varieties are apple, cherry, hickory, mesquite and pecan.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Fans can get up close to the rams, dinosaur and rattlesnake and majestic as well as two new sculptures that will go to Borrego Springs in November.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Oct. 2025
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The smallest snake in the state, the pygmy rattlesnake, packs a punch given its compact size.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
18 Sep. 2025
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Experts warn of a bullwhip effect: Today’s surplus can morph into tomorrow’s shortage after capacity cuts, complicating cost curves and undermining learning‑rate benefits critical to long‑term competitiveness against China’s scaled ecosystem.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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And, in an offering from a more rugged hero, Harrison Ford’s bullwhip, belt, and whip holster (the only complete set to ever be offered at auction) from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is estimated to hammer down for between $250,000 and $500,000.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 Aug. 2025
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As the leaves turn to shades of orange and brown, a copperhead snake starts to blend perfectly into its habitat.—
Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Sep. 2025
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Other snakes seen during the biannual Snake Road movement include nonvenomous plain-bellied water snakes, rough green snakes, and Western ribbon snakes, as well as venomous species like the northern copperhead and timber rattlesnake.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
19 Sep. 2025
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The sedate throwing of flowers erupted into a fistfight, a ministampede and people lashed with whips and riding quirts.—
John MacCormack,
San Antonio Express-News,
26 Apr. 2018
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Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
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Save for a quick glance at his adversary, Redford fixes his eyes on the out-of-focus holster in the foreground, a cobra waiting to strike.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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Looking through sketchbooks of Kaish’s time at MacDowell, Fisher found many drawings of the flowers and birch trees that would have surrounded her.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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The display features a larger-than-life horse sculpture trotting through birch trees created from piano keys.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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But what are moccasin shoes, anyway?—
Kelsey Stewart,
Glamour,
15 Oct. 2025
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Woven lace-up sneakers could also be seen, as well as metallic gold shoes with interweaving straps, a pointed-toe shoe with a version of a T-strap, moccasin-esque shoes with laces and more styles.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Blacksnake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacksnake. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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