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Recent Examples of cordwood
For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded.
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Jeff Sentell,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.
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Terry Shaw,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2024
And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined.
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Robert Wilonsky,
Dallas News,
14 Jan. 2020
After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties.
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Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2019
Jeff Sentell,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream.
—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.
—
Terry Shaw,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2024
And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined.
—
Robert Wilonsky,
Dallas News,
14 Jan. 2020
After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties.
—
Nicola Twilley,
The New Yorker,
19 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cordwood
firewood
Noun
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Add chunk oak firewood or oak smoking chunks directly onto the hot coals.
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Remove brush and firewood piles or stacks of rocks that provide shelter from elements and predators.
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“Cordwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordwood. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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