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Recent Examples of deadwood If your maple is in poor health, make minimal cuts or limit yourself to deadwood removal. oregonlive, 25 June 2023 The shears can cut everything from delicate stems to tough branches or deadwood. Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023 Clearing the deadwood Before leaving for Bed Bath & Beyond, Tritton had been enjoying a stellar run at Target as the discount giant’s chief merchant. Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2022 The plant in Los Angeles has a daily capacity of 24 tons of construction wood waste, deadwood, and agricultural detritus, and will produce 1,000 kg of hydrogen (at a very low price point of around $2 / kg) or 10 million BTU of renewable biogas, and 6 tons of solid carbon char every day. Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 2 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for deadwood
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Noun
  • Even if the garage door is open, don't start a vehicle if the garage is attached to a home. Furnace and fireplaces: Keep fireplaces clean and in good condition, make sure no debris is blocking the vents or chimney.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Residents who live near local landfills say the wildfire debris should be sent to hazardous waste landfills instead.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • People will be painting, planting trees, spreading mulch and cleaning up garbage starting at 9 a.m.
    Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Other videos on social media show people picking up food scraps from the garbage.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But — and here’s the punchline most of you already saw coming — despite the many things that have happened since May 2022, Manchester United are rubbish.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Inspectors put two coolers at a Miami 7-Eleven on the Do Not Use list and the trash was the new home for bacon, cheeseburgers, milk, Jamaican meat patties and other food in one of those coolers.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
  • When the Denver City Council approved the new trash collection program in 2022, one of the selling points was a doubling of recycling collection frequency from every other week to weekly.
    Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • By embracing these principles, leaders can not only protect themselves against the noise of junk trends but also create environments where thoughtful decision-making thrives.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Last spring, space junk from the International Space Station crashed into a home in Florida.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • After Blue Ghost lands on the moon, the instruments will operate for more than two weeks to collect data primarily on the moon’s subsurface, such as lunar dust and regolith, the loose rocks and mineral fragments that cover the lunar surface.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Plus, the screen shows the battery level and how full the dust cup is in real time.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Deadwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deadwood. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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