spruce

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Potato flatbread with spruce sprout pesto and pickled white currant.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Barr’s challenge is to improve CarMax’s online sales experience and lower the company’s costs to acquire and spruce up used cars for sale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

The researchers found that beetles feeding on spruce trees absorb defensive compounds from the phloem, especially phenolic glycosides such as stilbenes and flavonoids.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

Yet for investors considering any last-minute “window dressing” to spruce up their portfolios before liquidity tends to dry up during the year-end holiday period, Sutherland of Schroders said that’s not a good idea.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 14, 2025

She found an overhanging rock next to the roots of a spruce tree that clung to the side of the gorge, and settled herself beneath it to look around.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman