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branchlets

noun

plural of branchlet

as in limbs

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Whole limbs were frocked with ochre insects like coppery Christmas-tree decorations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Ultrasound studies indicate that a fetus’s dominant hand is decided before its brain even connects to its limbs.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 13 July 2026

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Both states have made gains in the race to nab Hollywood movie and TV spending for on-location shoots.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
Lack of Government Resources People on film sets are always trying to put out fires, but there are police and firefighters assigned to film shoots who often have to put out literal wildfires.

— Brian Welk, IndieWire, 15 July 2026

Definition of shoots

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One exhibit brings together the then-future president’s buckskin jacket and pants, his rifle, Tiffany knife, his spurs, and his branding irons.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2026
But aside from gifting Zane with spurs, Beth’s more or less a spectator through all of the Jackson family drama.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 19 June 2026

Definition of spurs

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But, of course, the ultimate sell, the one that would carry such businesses and their offshoots through feast and especially famine, was the optimism of opportunity itself, a shot at the good life in crazy times, for sellers and customers both.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Both vehicles are offshoots from the nation’s Long March 10, a gargantuan rocket that is being developed to send Chinese astronauts to the moon.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 10 July 2026

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