deforests

present tense third-person singular of deforest

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforests
Verb
  • Plus, the exhaust barks out back with little pops and bangs on throttle liftoff.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To survive a ruthless winnowing—to go from one of about 16,000 high-school quarterbacks each year to one of the 10 good ones in the NFL to one of the three or so each generation who earn the Hall of Fame’s gold jacket—hones certain traits within them and strips others away.
    Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The Kremlin claims these soldiers are mercenaries — a label that immediately strips them of their combatant rights, protection under international humanitarian law and prisoner-of-war status.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rather than owning hardware for such peaks, many AI-native companies are increasingly relying on cloud infrastructure that scales instantly, stretching across regions and edge locations based on data proximity and latency needs.
    Vincentas Grinius, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Models of star formation suggest the size of the jets scales with the size of the star producing them.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Deforests.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforests. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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