deforests

present tense third-person singular of deforest

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for deforests
Verb
  • Everyone barks in unison when the questioning is complete.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Perhaps a dog barks too much, a cat roams through the yard, or pets are relieving themselves in unwanted areas.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Organic sales — which strips out the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign currency — increased 2% in the quarter.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The suit argues firing workers during the shutdown is an abuse of power that strips federal employees of back-pay rights and violates agencies’ statutory duties.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And if the tech scales globally, millions of pregnancy tests, disease-detection strips, and farm-diagnostic kits could end their decades-long dependence on petroleum plastics.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • As Puck, the media company led by co-founder and editor-in-chief Jon Kelly, scales up with the acquisition of Air Mail, founder Graydon Carter is stepping back.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Deforests.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deforests. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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