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Recent Examples of woodlot
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.
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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
These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
For example, forested areas and woodlots with acorns can concentrate deer.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
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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
These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
For example, forested areas and woodlots with acorns can concentrate deer.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodlot
Noun
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Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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To distract me from the bombs exploding around us, my grandfather described his former home and olive groves in what is now Israel, which he had been forced to flee in 1948.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Not when Kate is receding into the background, like Homer Simpson into his hedge.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
7 Apr. 2025
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As a positive, bonds have returned to their status of providing a hedge to stocks during this downturn.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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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 eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Patent thickets are when manufacturers file multiple patents on one product to forestall generic competition.—
Victoria Knight,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the early days of graphic methods in statistics and the sciences, charts and graphs were meant to be efficient, clearing a thicket of abundant information in the heyday of print.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This elevated laptop stand will be a welcome addition to your mother’s home office.—
Sarah Madaus,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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In another act of coopetition, Audsley saw staff from one company aiding another to set up their stand the night before.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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“Woodlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodlot. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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