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Recent Examples of hickory
And the skin, dry rubbed in spices and hickory smoked for three hours, really shines.
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Justin L. MacK, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
The lush collard greens start with turkey tails, house-smoked over post oak and hickory for added flavor.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
Virginia Shenandoah National Park is home to deciduous trees, including oaks, hickories, maples, and birches resulting in a stunning color palette ranging from deep reds and oranges to bright yellows and golds.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Shades of fire and flame illuminate maples and hickories, while towering oaks and beeches change to copper before emptying their branches.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
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Justin L. MacK, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
The lush collard greens start with turkey tails, house-smoked over post oak and hickory for added flavor.
—Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 25 Nov. 2024
Virginia Shenandoah National Park is home to deciduous trees, including oaks, hickories, maples, and birches resulting in a stunning color palette ranging from deep reds and oranges to bright yellows and golds.
—Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Shades of fire and flame illuminate maples and hickories, while towering oaks and beeches change to copper before emptying their branches.
—Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hickory
Noun
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When birch trees were about to lose their leaves in the fall, there was a reversal in the flow of sugar as the evergreen Douglas firs sent it back to the birch trees through the same mycorrhizae.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps that’s why people around the world have had the impulse to gnaw on tacky materials—roots, resins, twigs, blubber, tar made by burning birch bark—for at least 8,000 years.—
Hannah Seo,
The Atlantic,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The chairs combine an aluminum frame with gorgeous, crisscrossing rattan.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
28 Mar. 2025
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This comes in four beautiful shades, inspired by the Italian shoreline, and there’s even a touch of rattan for a beachy bedside table moment.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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It was crafted with premium leather craftsmanship, rawhide laces, and stays true to its heritage with premium leather craftsmanship, rawhide laces, and Sperry’s signature Razor-Cut Wave-Siping™ outsole.—
Mecca Pryor,
Essence,
14 Mar. 2025
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Memorable improvisations include an Apache deck from the 19th century, with sword, bell and button forms painted into rectangles of rawhide, and a deck of Paris metro tickets painted over by Alexis Poliakoff in the 1970s.—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The matching leather strap is adjustable, making this bag flexible enough for both crossbody and over-the-shoulder wear.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
20 Mar. 2025
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The straps lock in place and give me that extra assurance that my lunch isn’t going to cause a scene on the subway.—
Jessica Kasparian,
SELF,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Lopez’s ban does not outlaw leather, cowhide or deerskin products.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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The only thing that could concentrate our eyes and minds, in this reverse panopticon of seventy thousand gazes, was the football itself, that precious prolate spheroid of dimpled cowhide, which had yet to be teed up or booted into play.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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For nearly a century, the town had served as a haven for African Americans while many other towns still had sundown laws and operated under the bullwhip of Jim Crow.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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An election year has combined with higher interest rates and the bullwhip effect to create softness in demand and a lack of general consumer confidence.—
Joel Scutchfield,
Forbes,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Hickory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hickory. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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