palm
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The sea breeze rustled the leaves of a palm as we talked in her small backyard.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
The palm oil market now focuses on its own fundamentals, as production increases and demand remains weak, it adds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
As children of the Windrush generation, they didn't have "the sunshine, the palm trees, the mangoes and all those things" that inspired Jamaica's reagge and dub culture, he says.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
A small hedge on one side of the cottage currently separates it from Hogan’s mansion, while palm trees line the other exterior wall.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
From her medicine pouch she took some dried yarrow leaves, and crumbled them in her palm.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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