branches

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Small ring molecules behave somewhat like bent branches under pressure.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Workers bend the branches down with a hook-shaped tool made of PVC pipe, helping people reach handfuls of cherries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

A blood-red tree descends, its skeletal branches and ropy roots suggesting veins and arteries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

I was still standing there admiring my work when, from the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a movement in the branches of a sycamore tree.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls