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Recent Examples of scrubland
In fact, in 2024, over the summer, there was twice the average amount of biomass in grasslands and scrublands in coastal Southern California due to these two wet winters in a row.
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Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Moreover, their feathers provide insulation and camouflage, blending seamlessly with the Australian scrubland.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
The SUVs file into a gravel parking area that was scratched out of the scrubland.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2024
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Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
Moreover, their feathers provide insulation and camouflage, blending seamlessly with the Australian scrubland.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
The SUVs file into a gravel parking area that was scratched out of the scrubland.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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The controversial decision allows litigants to block restoration projects by requiring duplicative analysis at both the project level and the forest plan level any time new information emerges about an endangered or threatened species in that forest.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Related Stories Fire rages in the forest one night when the village’s de facto guardian Maxim (Willem Dafoe), and his troupe of gun-toting child troglodytes trained in his image, hunt the Ochi (humans blame them for the disappearance of farm animals).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Residents of Marin, and the Bay Area at large, are understandably big fans of the diverse natural landscapes of the coast ranges: forests and woodlands, savannas and marshes, ocean coast and chaparral.—
Jack Gedney,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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The crew spread out, and sawyers began to cut the chaparral with their saws.—
M. R. O’Connor,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Even a simple online purchase, thanks to an informational thicket of identification checks and to gamelike time pressure, seems to threaten entrapment.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
29 Jan. 2025
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Here and there are thickets of flush summer trees, but rare is the spot of shade to be found in the natural landscape.—
Barrett Swanson,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
7 Sep. 2023
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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
Noun
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Around the world, millions of acres of orange trees have succumbed, and in the past 20 years, production in Florida’s storied orange groves, which once supplied the majority of America’s juice, has declined 92 percent.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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One notable casualty is the Andrew McNally House, a rambling Queen Anne Victorian that once stood alone amid citrus groves in Altadena.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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In this case, we were inspired by the idea of a slightly spooky fairy-tale woodland: Think dark colors (winey maroons, deep browns, and yes, a classic black), edgy shapes, and blatant prints that read more gothic cool than outdated grandma.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2025
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The species is widespread across Ethiopia and known to inhabit woodlands and grasslands.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 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 8 Feb. 2025.
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