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firewood

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as in cordwood

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Recent Examples of firewood She's also used The Southern Shmooze to find a pest control prevention business, and one to deliver firewood. — Katherine Bjoraas, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026 Employees were provided access to educational opportunities and housing stocked with firewood, and they were invited to the estate’s annual Christmas celebration. — Abby Price, Southern Living, 16 Sep. 2026 That convenient touch keeps your firewood neat, organized, and ready to go at a moment’s notice. — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2026 Locate firewood and propane gas tanks at least 50 feet from the structure. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for firewood

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For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded.

— 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

Definition of cordwood

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Our wine ages for a full year in French oak, where the wood’s precise porosity allows just the right exchange with oxygen — softening the wine, concentrating its aromas and flavours, building complexity no machine can replicate.

— Peter Hahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
Expect light wood accents, rich textiles, white plantation shutters, and framed artwork alongside in-room lending libraries.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of wood

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At the age of nine, he was shipped on a lumber freighter from Russia to England; a year later, he was sent to the United States.

— Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
When private forests burn, landowners salvage burned trees, turn them into lumber and replant, turning those forests green again within years.

— Chris Edwards, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026

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One use involves directing a beam of protons or other heavier particles into the patient, targeting unwanted cancerous cells (proton/heavy ion therapy).

— Andrea Richard, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2026
Researchers at Romania’s Horia Hulubei National Institute have now solved this speed challenge by producing images with an artificial muon beam for the first time.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

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