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For elegant illumination, Thompson wrapped strands from the trunk to the tip of each bough and then back, repeating the process all the way up.
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2025
For example, forest scents have long been synonymous with winter and its holiday traditions, as Christmas trees, wreaths, and pine boughs signal calm and comfort during a season of rest.
—Paul Nicolaus, Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
All the snow resting on their upper boughs began to melt in big wet drops, soaking the dry earth below.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
The space features fragrant evergreen boughs, which Rucci said are supposed to give the illusion of the Northwoods creeping into the alcove.
—Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2025
For example, forest scents have long been synonymous with winter and its holiday traditions, as Christmas trees, wreaths, and pine boughs signal calm and comfort during a season of rest.
—Paul Nicolaus, Outside, 22 Nov. 2025
All the snow resting on their upper boughs began to melt in big wet drops, soaking the dry earth below.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
The space features fragrant evergreen boughs, which Rucci said are supposed to give the illusion of the Northwoods creeping into the alcove.
—Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bough
Noun
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Try to keep a somewhat open center to allow sunlight in and good air movement among the branches.—
Tom Macklin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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Although plants played a central role in subsistence for centuries, Neolithic communities heavily relied on human and animal figures, with scarce traces of plant visual representation, such as flowers, shrubs, and branches.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Charlotte Kramon,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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No new precipitation is expected in Oncor’s service area on Monday but tree limbs with ice on them continue to sag and break onto power lines.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Bough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bough. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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