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Recent Examples of hickory
Early vaulters carried a rigid pole of ash or hickory that was heavy and didn’t bend.
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Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
Tender meat is salty and smoky, sometimes pinkish the way poultry gets in the smolder of cherry wood and hickory.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
The clamor of the crowd must have been startling, too, as well as the commotion of bats among the oaks and hickories and the brilliance of the sky.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
Historically, Indigenous populations utilized cultural landscape burning to favor the presence of nut producing trees such as oaks and hickories, invigorate berry producing plants, and maintain open grassy meadows for hunting, farming, and other food gathering activities.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2024
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Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
Tender meat is salty and smoky, sometimes pinkish the way poultry gets in the smolder of cherry wood and hickory.
—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 17 July 2024
The clamor of the crowd must have been startling, too, as well as the commotion of bats among the oaks and hickories and the brilliance of the sky.
—Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
Historically, Indigenous populations utilized cultural landscape burning to favor the presence of nut producing trees such as oaks and hickories, invigorate berry producing plants, and maintain open grassy meadows for hunting, farming, and other food gathering activities.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hickory
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The Cat Couch is manufactured from Baltic birch wood in Arizona.Medea Giordano, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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Wait until late summer to prune trees with large sap flows such as birch, elm, and maple.Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024
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Expect to find swivel gliders in airy white linen, cribs and dressers accented with handwoven caning, and daybeds made from honey-toned rattan.Shoko Wanger, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2024
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Done up with vintage-style rattan and wicker, all five units are delights.Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
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The decor is wittily maximalist—Elton John’s idea of a cowboy saloon—with rawhide banquettes and giant antlers for a chandelier.Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 7 Sep. 2024
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However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2024
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Instead of a single strap, the Nao utilizes a harness system (with multiple adjustment points) for your head.Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
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Styles include a vegan leather top handle tote with a chain strap.Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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The recently re-designed Great Hall of the Lodge, which offers sweeping views of the golf course, is adorned by large-scale cowhide quilts by Kyle Bunting that utilize patterns traditional to Appalachia that have been passed down through generations of women.Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Rather, the Dune actor has been slinging her belongings—and her boyfriend Tom Holland’s new beverage line—into the new Neverfull Inside Out in black cowhide leather, which is decidedly more discreet than the original.Alice Newbold, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
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On a coat hook by the door hangs a fedora, a bullwhip and a leather messenger bag.Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
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Knight, who once brought a bullwhip to practice and took a gentle swipe in the direction of Calbert Cheaney, a Black player.The Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
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“Hickory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hickory. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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