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firewood

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as in cordwood

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Recent Examples of firewood The Axvant really steps up in the art of fire-making after all that kindling and firewood has been piled up neatly atop the tinder bundle in the fire pit, ready to light. — New Atlas, 28 Sep. 2026 Communities have planted trees for medicine, firewood and crafts along the edge of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in a bid to reduce pressure on gorilla habitats. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 Bonfires are typically a nice fall event, but firewood piles are magnets for the reptile, and much the same for rock piles along trails. — Isa Almeida, Oklahoman, 21 Sep. 2026 To avoid attracting kissing bugs and other nocturnal insects to your house, keep firewood and brush piles far away and turn porch lights off at night. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 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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Running Tide had struggled to grow kelp offshore at scale and shifted toward deployments of wood chips mixed with alkaline substances, said former general manager Kristinn Hróbjartsson.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Rising construction costs forced Donnelly and architect Ryan Perella to keep the backyard guesthouse simple, using budget-conscious finishes such as polished concrete floors and wood countertops.

— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of wood

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The tariffs have hurt Maine because so much of the wood and the lumber that is grown and cut here in Maine is actually shipped up north to Canada to be processed, and then what it is processed as is shipped back across the United States.

— Dustin DeSoto, Vox, 21 Oct. 2026
Pine pulpwood consists of trees ground into paper and packaging, while pine sawtimber is made up of larger trees cut into lumber for homebuilding.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026

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By changing its flight attitude, the platform could redirect the radar beam toward different sectors without depending entirely on a mechanically rotating antenna.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
In work that would delight any Star Wars fan, scientists have now created an antenna from a plasma beam.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Oct. 2026

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