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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
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Visiting olive groves and tasting premium olive oils is a real delight, as every drop of olive oil tells its own story, its own tradition.—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Residents of the village fled the shelling and took refuge in neighboring villages and olive groves.—
Omar Albam and Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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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
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In December 2023, Jonathan Majors walked through a dense thicket of news cameras and climbed into the back of a black Chevy Suburban pulling away from the criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan.—
Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Mar. 2025
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Nor has the United States’ growing thicket of export controls and sanctions on Chinese firms and technology imports extracted significant concessions from Beijing.—
Nicholas Mulder,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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