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Last Saturday, as wildfires tore through pine forests in southwestern France, Canadair pilot Grégory Prats said only five of the planes were available to fight the fires.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Hundreds of firefighters have over the past few days been battling blazes in the southwest of France famous for its sand dunes, pine trees, and oyster shacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

"The flames were higher than full-size forest pine trees, so five or six storeys high, and it was clear this was a fire that was out of control at that point."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Moving rapidly through dense pine forests, the blaze spread to the Cap-Ferret peninsula, a popular tourist destination on the Atlantic coast long favoured by wealthy French families and known for sand dunes and oyster shacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

“When he said he’d pine for Alfhercht. Did he mean that?”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

"We're dealing with a very dense stand of closely packed pines," firefighter Captain Wilfried Schneider told AFP, describing a fire of "rare" intensity.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Any justice who pines for the spotlight can give as many interviews and speak at as many law schools as he or she likes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

“We’re hoping that there’s going to be a quick recovery path,” Ethan McKinley, superintendent of Channel Islands National Park, said of the pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

My grandmother positions a chair in front of the windows of our sunroom, which look out onto the neighboring hills dotted with bungalows, Tuscan pines and tall palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

And during their down years, Knicks die-hards pined for LeBron James or Kevin Durant to ride in to the rescue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

And you can expect more such details to surface as we finally get the Succession epilogue its fans have pined for, with a Tom Wambsgans type in charge.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026

"Please tell me she's real," pined one on Threads.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

That’s something Latino residents have long pined for, to join the seats held by Imelda Padilla and Monica Rodriguez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024

Or maybe we are stupid in the exact same way as every other idiot mortal who’s pined away for another bite of goblin fruit.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.

From Barron's ● May 22, 2026

“I’m pining so badly,” he later implored, “I could throw myself down on the ground before you!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

“It’s like a teen movie cliché. You have the choreographed group dance number and the weird pining eye contact, and then the big smoochy kiss.”

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli