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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firewood
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Some of the early subscriptions to the Litchfield Independent were paid for with cordwood, farm produce or muskrat skins.—
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Straw bale houses fall into the same category as cordwood.—
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Acidic bird droppings stain or corrode paint, wood, and metal.—
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However, series co-creators Lyle and Bart Nickerson teased that the group isn't out of the woods as their immense trauma continues to haunt them, especially after Natalie’s death.—
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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.—
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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.—
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The software can cause an error in the low power controller that makes the headlight shutters close over the high and low beams while driving.—
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To optimize the now 5,500-square-foot layout, Churchill demolished a dangerous secondary stair, freeing the hayloft level to become the generous primary suite, where Hammel extended original timber barn framing with reclaimed sawn softwood beams.—
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“Firewood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firewood. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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