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‘Trees can be dead.’

[⟨det (plur tree.n)⟩ dead.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The zombie world sucked though, it was like sleepy hollow with all dead trees and stuff.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There were only three dead trees.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Many trees are partially dead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The three trees that were in the median had been dead for a while.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Later as road speeds increased the dead trees were not replaced as they were deemed to be killers – after collisions.
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In Wikipedia:

Unless those trees are dead, dying or dangerous, then consent is required for their removal, and generally a replacement tree may well be required.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Officials at the university department of entomology say that insect damage has found only 11 dead trees due to insect infestations and that the elms of the city are generally safe and not dying out at anything beyond the normal rate.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

SOOOoooo much chum, so many dead trees, so much bad 70’s feminist pseudo – allegorical nonsense.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

All the trees in the foreground are dead because the ground sunk after the great 1964 earthquake, flooding this meadow and turning it into a wetlands.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

the wall are closing in, my throat is slowing closing. my heart is beating slower, my mouth is dry, my tounge is numb. everything is blurry and spinning. where am I going, where am I. where are you. where am I. I’m back at the emptyhollows. they are suffocating me, once again, pulling out all good memories, and everything I once had said, to keep them away. t hey are back, oh these empty hollows. youll never understand, waht this place is, its a place where nothing is living, all trees are dead, the sun never rises, there is no moon, no stars, no nothing, except me and the trees, me and the trees are dead. weve been suffocated from the sun, and from air, from existence.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

WTF?! is everybody that stupid and oblivious? no wonder this world has energy issues. there are plenty of indians and arabs here. I think they are probably the worst offenders. on a side note, there are houses that arabs moved into a few years ago – formerly nice houses, with nice yards – and now the flower beds have 3–4 years of weeds growing in them, the trees are all dead or grown out of control, I can see the blinds inside all fucked up and broken and hanging crooked – these fuckers are so busy being immersed in the koran that life completely passes them by. so if you want to trash a nice property, allow arabs to buy it. they have NO pride, NO shame, NO self respect.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The trees surrounding me are dead, no leaves, no colour.
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In Wikipedia:

They are the largest of the Asiatic woodpeckers (between 42 and 48 centimetres) and nest in large dead trees, often beside rivers.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

… not to be at pennsic (sca) war right now… it’s late morning, the startish of what seems an increasingly hot day here in Vermont, and the one time I went we simply camped in some hot flat unprotected site, not really part of much but a few of us with our tents near each others ’, sort of optimistically taking what we were given… but the things that leave me unhappy with this mainstream society still exist in my limited experience of pennsic: lots of loud disregard for others’ sleeping, lack of privacy, often stuff about “Oh, I’m pagan, yeah, Odin / Zeus / the Lord and Lady is great, it’s my life, nature is everything… hey, these fukker trees are in our way because we want our tent here for a week, so let’s cut them down and make artistic – looking poles to stand near our tents, and then the trees will still be dead when we’re gone, but we’re not thinking about that… where’s the beer cooler?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

BUT while out in the bay, where the watermelons grow, we saw this little island that seems worthy of an Alfred Hitchcock (or at least an Ingmar Bergman) film as it’s got about 7 trees sticking out of it that are completely devoid of any sort of foliage – the trees are quite dead indeed.
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In the British National Corpus:

There are three species, calocera glossoides, found mostly on dead oaks, calocera viscosa, found almost exclusively on dead conifers, and the one pictured calocera cornea which is found on a wide range of dead deciduous trees.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Neighborhood complaints have prompted a big – box retailer to work with Gurnee to fix a stormwater retention pond and replace dead trees that purportedly resulted from the store’s construction.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

4) The trees that were planted in last year’s RtB are all dead now.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I wondered how many trees were dead, which ones had come to dominate the yard.
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Queried on 2013-05-24.