sapling
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The mayor gave each of them a pine sapling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Ultimately we don't understand it but we would really like the sapling back," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Tyler and Cora steady a western redbud sapling as Atticus holds up a bag of soil and Eliza shovels out the fragrant earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
It was there that Nana Asumbia planted another sapling.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Anastasia had dropped the sapling and was staring at us, the remaining bonobos — probably the aggressive Pink Ladies Mama Brunelle had told me about — again flanking her.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
And everyone promised to water the saplings faithfully while they are still small and their roots are beginning to reach out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Nearby are saplings, each young tree bordered by fencing to protect it.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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