branches

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The museum had designated one central tree to be the official “Wish Tree” and it had built an elevated platform around the trunk base, so visitors could reach the branches more easily.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Its website used to describe it as a "leading UK real estate agency" with "eight branches" and "170 staff".

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Instead, it’s inspired by the famous fig tree metaphor from Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” where each plump and juicy fig, dangling deliciously on the branches, represents a different life path for the protagonist.

From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026

Their dormers hadn’t been built yet; the lawns hardly had grass; the trees were plants held steady by sticks, a piece of paper attached by wire to the branches: “Apple tree.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I had never known my old dog to lie, so I looked up into the branches of the big sycamore.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls