spruce
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Helped into the apartment by an X Square engineer, the AI-operated Quanta X1 Pro robot uses its cameras to identify areas it could spruce up.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Martin and Co. guitar, a seamless blend of spruce, mahogany, celluloid, ebony and mother-of-pearl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
They are from 7 to 8 feet long, made from carefully selected 50-to-60-year-old pine and spruce trees felled in early summer; tests of replica spears have suggested a range of about 38 yards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Native trees like alder, spruce and rowan are interspersed with hawthorn shrubs.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Scarlet rowan trees and golden birch blazed like flame against the dark-green spruce.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"Previously, it was spruces or cedars, but today, we find endemic species better adapted to the climate," Merdan Arazmedov, a member of Turkmenistan's Nature Protection Society, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Dec. 18, 2025
There’s no escaping the fact the simulated emergency care being given under shade of spruces could be carried out in grim reality in the coming weeks and months.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
They advise people to avoid trees near power lines and encourage Estonians to plant spruces in the forests to make sure there are Christmas trees for generations to come.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
At the head of it all, where the grass grows into a forest mixed with pines, spruces, and birch, is a small bar with a "Huuva Hideaway" sign hanging above.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
It was filled with thousands of perfectly rendered maples, oaks, spruces, and tamaracks.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Mr. Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right."
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, if my hands adhere to cash, My gloves at least are clean, And rarely have the gentry flash In sprucer clothes been seen.
From Paul Clifford — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
They rode the sprucer for it; they were in better spirits for it.
From The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Norris, Frank
The Bowdoins, father and son, noted that their old clerk's dress was sprucer.
From Pirate Gold by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
Looks sprucer and snappier than I'd ever seen him before, too.
From Wilt Thou Torchy by Ford, Sewell
Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Mr. Hugh Wenlock was on deck in the sprucest of his apparel, and was visibly anxious and fidgety, as befitted a man who shortly expected to enter into the bonds of matrimony.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
Along thy sprucest bookshelves shine The works thou deemest most divine— The 'Art of Cookery,' and mine, My Murray.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
Would any one wish to see these remains tricked out in the sprucest, or even the richest, modern habiliments?
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew
Some buildings were spruced up as part of a tourism drive launched in the 1990s, which peaked in the years following the landmark 2016 visit by former US President Barack Obama.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
He’s pleased to see the estate being spruced up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
One of the most crucial sequences involves the makeover that Glinda tries to give Elphaba as she sings “Popular” in their Shiz University dorm room, which she has spruced up with pink accouterments.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The hall is spruced up with new seats and looks lovely.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024
“Got any eggs?” asked Rooster Jim, all spruced up in mostly clean clothes.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
I like sprucing up my ramen with fresh bok choy, baby corn, spinach and pickled red onions.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Walmart is sprucing up its home goods to attract more high-income shoppers and better compete with the e-commerce titan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
The firm also started sprucing up shops with inviting armchairs, new paint and ceramic mugs - all part of a $150,000-per-store "uplift" that is expected to take four years to complete.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Minister Chung said North Koreans have been spotted "sprucing up" areas near the JSA for the first time this year -- cleaning, pulling weeds, tidying flower beds and taking photos.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025
“It could use some sprucing up,” Håkon agreed.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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