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Recent Examples of firewood
Cover firewood piles, especially oak, with clear plastic (not black).
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Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2025
Opened in 2021, this stylish contemporary hotel — with its antler chandeliers and oversize firewood racks — is evidence of the direction the county is moving: less herring and cheese curds, more cocktails and caviar.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
Relocate firewood and lumber to Zone 2. Replace combustible fencing, gates, and arbors attached to the home with noncombustible alternatives.
—Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
In South Sudan and Uganda, where refugee camps are often overcrowded and firewood resources are limited, Wonderbags have eased tensions between communities.
—Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2025
Opened in 2021, this stylish contemporary hotel — with its antler chandeliers and oversize firewood racks — is evidence of the direction the county is moving: less herring and cheese curds, more cocktails and caviar.
—Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025
Relocate firewood and lumber to Zone 2. Replace combustible fencing, gates, and arbors attached to the home with noncombustible alternatives.
—Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
In South Sudan and Uganda, where refugee camps are often overcrowded and firewood resources are limited, Wonderbags have eased tensions between communities.
—Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firewood
Noun
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Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.—
Terry Shaw,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2024
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Straw bale houses fall into the same category as cordwood.—
John Schandelmeier,
Anchorage Daily News,
28 May 2022
Noun
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Guest room rooms are appointed with oak woods, crisp cream walls, and plenty of Le Labo products.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 2025
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The cozy interior is swaddled in leather and burl wood, and rear-seat passengers even got elegant picnic tables that folded down from the front seatbacks.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Image Since taking office a month ago, Mr. Trump has enacted a 10 percent tariff on imports from China and is poised in coming weeks to add wider import taxes of 25 percent or higher on cars, steel and aluminum, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and lumber.—
Alexandra Stevenson,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Acceptable items for the site include leaves, grass clippings and wood, while unacceptable items include plastic bags, trash, lumber, soil or dirt, animal waste, rock and metal, according to the website.—
Noah Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Another trouble spot is the center support—wooden slats or metal beams can move under the weight of whoever is sleeping on it, causing the wood to rub against the frame.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
27 Feb. 2025
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Five steel beams supporting the bridge, each about 164 feet long, collapsed one after another, the news agency said.—
Jin Yu Young,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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