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[pahyn] / paɪn /


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However, he warned that there were "significant challenges" ahead because of organic soil layers being badly affected and due to damage to the area's renowned Scots pine.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Almost nothing grows here except the resilient Jeffrey pine, with its deep taproot and remarkably low metabolic demand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

According to People, Love and his wife, Jacquelyne Piesen, arranged for 6 acres surrounding their Incline Village property to be protected from development, helping preserve the towering pine trees and wildlife that characterize the area.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Here, Moore shows reverence not only for her own craft, but for all the hopeful idealists who pine to know what it feels like to lose yourself in someone, or something, else.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

They had waited in the pine thicket for four nights.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Forestry and Land Scotland say the blaze around Glenmore in the Cairngorms may have led to the loss of many so-called "granny pines" which have matured over centuries.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

She stopped in the middle of the woods during a walk, looked with disapproval at my light jacket, and threw her hands up in mock confusion, surveying the snow-encrusted pines.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The area around present-day Shangri-La began to grow rich as Drolma’s family and other ethnic Tibetans jumped into harvesting the mushrooms, which grow naturally on the oaks and pines of the Eastern Himalayas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

I followed them, expecting they’d lead me to the pines toward the creek, but they stopped at the road.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

But there’s one confection I’ve pined for, one tied to the memory of my mother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Executives want to appeal to customers who have long pined for a way to sign up for only the channels they actually watch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024

Mr. Butzel told The New York Times in 2000 that as a lawyer’s son he “felt obligated to be a lawyer, but it was nothing I pined to do.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Several residents still pined for a separate state, leading India’s Parliament to establish Sikh- and Hindu-dominated states in the north, respectively recognized as Punjab and Haryana, by 1966.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023

He pined away, leaning perpetually over the pool, fixed in one long gaze.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Before many learned Walter might be interested in selling the team quickly, Kushner and Iger, already pining for an NBA franchise, jumped at the opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Noah quit the Washington Post to start a politics web site, while still pining for Chaya, who worked in the Obama administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

The boys were ready, were proud to be able to help out the U.S. of A. and whatnot, although the chubby girlfriends and mothers admitted they’d be pining for their men.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx


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