fir
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They also dropped by Pyongyang's top cadre school, where they planted a fir tree symbolising their evergreen friendship, Xinhua reported.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
A $5 permit, a hike through the snow, and a glorious Douglas fir we covered in lights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Ford’s fir and birch-burners are radiant examples of human-made art triumphing over digital manufacture.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Forest is more valuable there than in the South due to high prices for logs from Douglas fir trees that often are exported to Asia.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
Akira loved this time of year, when the air was crisp and cool and smelled like cedar and Douglas fir.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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The Indigenous Rukai people have a poetic name for these immense firs: 'The tree that hits the moon'.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Would retaining a subset of old firs help new ones to thrive?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Across the river on a span built by Romans and following the path through firs and beech, we soon reach a bend where the Irati turns back south.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Peaks reaching more than a mile high form the backdrop to Bear Valley, a kaleidoscope of green pastures mixed with ponderosa pines, firs, cedars and oak trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
Green- boughed firs stretched away in endless, disordered rows, each direction a mirror of the others.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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