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Recent Examples of hickory
They can be ordered three different ways, including in a five or nine-piece entree with hickory barbecue sauce.
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Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Additionally, the hickory stripe denim used in the collection has a lighter, smoother weight than modern stiffer fabrications.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
However, your best bet for seeing the glorious reds, oranges, or yellows of the oak, hickory, and maple trees along the route will be mid to late October.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
The 200,000-acre park is covered with beech, birch and hickory trees that turn yellow, while black gums and maples offer shades of red.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
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Helena Wegner, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Additionally, the hickory stripe denim used in the collection has a lighter, smoother weight than modern stiffer fabrications.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
However, your best bet for seeing the glorious reds, oranges, or yellows of the oak, hickory, and maple trees along the route will be mid to late October.
—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
The 200,000-acre park is covered with beech, birch and hickory trees that turn yellow, while black gums and maples offer shades of red.
—Graham Averill, Outside, 26 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hickory
Noun
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Despite its name, river birch trees perform well in drier soils and are drought tolerant once established.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025
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Mixed oak woods, pine and birch, upland rowan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Made from weather-resistant rattan, this set can stand up to most weather.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Bread baskets and faux bamboo flatware also complement rattan.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 July 2025
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Pictures of Piper the dog, who last year went through an awful health scare after having a rawhide treat.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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Chinese laborers, rare for that time, made rawhide bags on site to take the limestone and dump it into iron buckets on an aerial tramway, according to Meniketti’s report.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
6 July 2025
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The sedate throwing of flowers erupted into a fistfight, a ministampede and people lashed with whips and riding quirts.—
John MacCormack,
San Antonio Express-News,
26 Apr. 2018
Noun
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Five straps of differing widths hold the foot in place as the shoe’s upper balance on top of a six-inch heel.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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For suitcases, this may include dual main compartments with zippered mesh closures and compression straps, a pocketed divider, removable laundry or shoe bags, and interior zippered pockets of various sizes to keep your smallest essentials in order.—
Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
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Engineered with innovative construction techniques, each curve of the shoe flows in plush cowhide suede, rising just above the ankle in a continuous fluid form.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Just as cowhide leather exploded in usage only after the advent of chrome-tanning in the 1980s because of the performance improvement that technology gave it, mycelium has needed this sort of breakthrough that Rei-Tan provides to turn it from an interesting raw material into a great product.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
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Experts warn of a bullwhip effect: Today’s surplus can morph into tomorrow’s shortage after capacity cuts, complicating cost curves and undermining learning‑rate benefits critical to long‑term competitiveness against China’s scaled ecosystem.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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And, in an offering from a more rugged hero, Harrison Ford’s bullwhip, belt, and whip holster (the only complete set to ever be offered at auction) from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is estimated to hammer down for between $250,000 and $500,000.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Hickory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hickory. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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