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Recent Examples of scrubland
The land that surrounds the areas that burned is largely chaparral, a type of scrubland, said Ernesto Alvarado, a professor of forestry and forest fires at the University of Washington.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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Over the subsequent decades, Earth Day has spread around the globe as more and more countries call for environmental regulations to protect the planet’s air, water, forests and wildlife from industrial pollution and greenhouse gases that are harming our climate.—
Andrew Torgan,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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Meant to simulate hunting, the sport takes place in forests and fields and involves walking from one station to another to shoot—imagine golf, but with guns.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
19 Apr. 2025
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Hazardous fire areas were considered to be at greater risk for wildfire due to their proximity to highly flammable vegetation including the native chaparral that is present in many areas of Poway’s open spaces.—
Christian Martinez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.—
Hugo A Loaiciga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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The grizzly boiled out of the thicket and came plowing uphill at a dead run, ready to tackle all nine of us.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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MoffettNathanson noted the thicket of issues that Apple has to navigate regarding tariffs — and that the company is caught in the middle because of China’s importance in the global electronics supply chain.—
Kevin Williams,
Quartz,
22 Apr. 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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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 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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Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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To distract me from the bombs exploding around us, my grandfather described his former home and olive groves in what is now Israel, which he had been forced to flee in 1948.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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The search for the vaunted gourmet fungi takes place on a local family’s private woodland and is followed by a four-course tasting menu studded with your finds.—
Vivian Song,
Robb Report,
19 Apr. 2025
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The company wants to rezone more than 80 acres of woodlands near Metacomet Road and Pinnacle Rock in Plainville to allow gravel mining.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
17 Apr. 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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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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