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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A coastal plain region of southeast-central and southern New Jersey. Its extensive forests of pine, cedar, and oak were all but exhausted by the 1860s as the result of indiscriminate cutting for shipbuilding and charcoal making.
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Mired ... in the Pine Barrens aka Sap Needles Understory clarkbeast (10: 50: 39):
WordPress.com News 2008
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And, I guess, be a poor woman, in the Pine Barrens?
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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—Among New Jersey's notable natural assets—the shore, the Pine Barrens, the Delaware Water Gap—the state can increasingly point to another one: many large bears.
Bear Season Lures Hunters Heather Haddon 2011
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Nick Brandreth for The Wall Street Journal The band set up their guitar amps and drum stands amid the pines and oaks in Pine Barrens.
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They wanted to capture its diverse landscape in a new light, starting with the Pine Barrens and moving on to a suburban front yard, the seaside boardwalk of Asbury Park, the basement of a college row house in New Brunswick, and finishing with a rooftop performance at a Jersey City bar.
Born to Run Through the Entire Garden State Andy Beta 2011
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Nick Brandreth for The Wall Street Journal The band intended to capture the state's diverse landscape, starting with the Pine Barrens and moving on to a suburban front yard.
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And, I guess, be a poor woman, in the Pine Barrens?
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011
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Of all the places to stage a concert, the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey might be the most unlikely.
Born to Run Through the Entire Garden State Andy Beta 2011
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You remember when the main characters get lost in the Pine Barrens and battle it out with deer and peculiar country bumpkins?
Christine A. Scheller: Leaving the Circus for the Jersey Shore and Finding a More Nourishing Faith Christine A. Scheller 2010
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You remember when the main characters get lost in the Pine Barrens and battle it out with deer and peculiar country bumpkins?
Christine A. Scheller: Leaving the Circus for the Jersey Shore and Finding a More Nourishing Faith 2010
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