as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.
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Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
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Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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Best View There’s no bad view along this hike, but the perspective from the grove of Torrey Pines gives you a broad field of vision that takes in the grasslands, cliffs, and Pacific that stretches on for eternity.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
30 May 2025
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Brightbill arrives at the grove to see what has happened to his mother, and if she’s been reset.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 May 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2025
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Restore coastlines with mangroves, wetlands, seagrass meadows and coastal forests.—
Marc Benioff,
Time,
8 June 2025
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But on January 11, 1937, a young man hunting rabbits south of Everett finds Charles’s naked, battered body dumped in a thicket of alders, knifed in the back and beaten in the head with a blunt instrument.—
Caroline Fraser
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
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The Trump administration has been ensnared in a Lilliputian thicket of nationwide injunctions almost since the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in and began issuing executive orders.—
The Editors,
National Review,
19 May 2025
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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Then in September, a Secret Service agent spotted the muzzle of a rifle sticking out of a fence in bushes at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club while scouting the course ahead of Trump.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 June 2025
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Fire officials said it was reported that the child was caught by an adult and landed in a bush, which helped break the fall.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
30 May 2025
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Just like where the gas and brake is of people tuning in and out.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2025
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The driving experience: SQ5 Audi Audi The third brake light projects a message onto the rear window.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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