willow
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The infested willow plants were sold in 15 counties, mostly across Southern and Central California between June 24 and July 3.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
She played a full summer for Hampshire, solely contributing with willow in hand.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The second artifact was a much smaller piece of willow or poplar wood that also showed evidence of carving and possible use by humans.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
A spokesperson said the Muxton marshland had struggled because the willow plants dried out the fen.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
The high, frantic chorus of the spring peepers almost covered the sound of the wind as it moved through the newly opened willow leaves.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
She has planted meadows, willows, hedgerows, tussocky grasses and late-flowering crops to give insects food through the summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Among them, the height to volume model was applied to heavily browsed willows with unusual growth forms, even though the model was not designed for such distorted shapes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
He previously lived for years in San Diego County, where he ran along waterways teeming with birds among reeds, willows and sycamores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
The vast Grand Palais exhibition space in central Paris was transformed into an enchanted forest populated by giant mushrooms and pink weeping willows as stars from Nicole Kidman to Dua Lipa looked on.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026
I heard her saying to me, in the candlelit darkness of my bedchamber, “‘By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down and wept....On the willows there, we hung up our harps….
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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Vocabulary from Readings 3, Unit 1
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"The Blue and the Gray" by Francis Miles Finch
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