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woodlot

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as in grove

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Recent Examples of woodlot More information on northwestern Minnesota woodlots especially crucial, state Forestry Association says. — Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 4 Mar. 2025 That success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home. — Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024 Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls. — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023 For that matter, Walden is organized by thematic chapters, because there’s not much plot to Thoreau spending some time in a shack on Emerson’s woodlot. — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for woodlot

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Take the paved footpath behind Zori past olive groves to reach the ACI Marina, its restaurants and the taxi boats that take you to Hvar Town and the notoriously hedonistic beach club, Carpe Diem, on the neighboring island of Marinkovac.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
But in the Pacific Palisades, one mature grove, planted experimentally in the late 1800s, is still thriving, miraculously untouched by last year’s destructive fires.

— Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2026

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Framed that way, his purchase of the Lakers is less of an anti-AI hedge, and more of another part of his AI-bullish thesis.

— Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Platforms' latest offerings include perpetual futures contracts and hedges for certain risks, which experts said are ways for the platforms to appeal to Wall Street and identify as serious financial instruments.

— Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026

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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.

— Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.

— Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

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The Last Bison surrounded him with a thicket of acoustic instrumentation, including guitar, banjo, bass, and mandolin, while Fallon, cowboy hat planted firmly on his head, joined the fray with a washboard.

— Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2026
If this continues, whether as a coordinated effort or a thicket of unilateral measures, the effect on China could be a sudden and sustained shortfall in external demand.

— Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026

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