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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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Brightbill arrives at the grove to see what has happened to his mother, and if she’s been reset.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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Best View There’s no bad view along this hike, but the perspective from the grove of Torrey Pines gives you a broad field of vision that takes in the grasslands, cliffs, and Pacific that stretches on for eternity.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Manicured hedges line the walkways and the perimeter of the lot.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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Despite its size, the home sits behind a gate and 30-foot hedges.—
TJ Macias,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 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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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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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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Few other books can take you through Renaissance France, the arctic wilderness, and a thicket of sexist constraints in such an engaging way.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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That means replacing sprawling federal economic and social programs—and their thicket of rules—with privatization and the restoration of residual authority to states and communities.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Hang it between trees or on a hammock stand to unwind outside all summer.—
Isabel Garcia,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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But a cake stand gives a cake presence, and it can even be used for occasions other than serving a sweet treat.—
Heather Bien,
Southern Living,
3 June 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 10 Jun. 2025.
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