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cordwood

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Recent Examples of cordwood For a school like Georgia, which has consistently stacked elite talent like cordwood in the Kirby Smart era, those are compounded. — Jeff Sentell, AJC.com, 17 June 2026 In the short video, a giant mass of salmon — an uncountable number of fish — are stacked up like cordwood in the narrow stream. — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025 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 And the things he was made to do, lest he be shot or thrown, still living, but just barely, into the piles of corpses stacked like cordwood in streets, fields, along the fence lines of the ghettos and death camps in which he was confined. — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020 After loggers felled the large trees, smaller ones became fuel for locomotives, and the eastern slopes of the Sierra are so dry that there are still stacks of cordwood left over from the eighteen-eighties. — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019

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Clean cooking refers to the use of low-emission fuels and technologies, such as ethanol, biogas and electricity, instead of traditional fuels like charcoal and firewood.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
Store firewood as far away from your home as possible and clean up any brush piles.

— Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026

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