wooden
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The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported, citing neighbours, that the suspect arrested in Yorkshire had left his home in the town of Rotherham on Wednesday morning carrying a wooden stick.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
All of this is familiar from before, but robbed of the expressive capacity of animation it ends up feeling considerably more wooden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The 49-year-old lives with her daughter in an open-front wooden home metres from a dilapidated sign reading "Tiger Reintroduction Project".
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
Sitting on a patch of desert sand, the wind phone created by Colin Campbell and Gail Lerner consists of a wooden box sitting atop a cabinet with a chair nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
‘There it is,’ Hannie says, pointing through the trees to a wooden jetty.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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