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Recent Examples of scrubland
This is Everglades cattle country, with miles upon miles of slash pines and flat scrubland, pristine and still untouched by developers just 35 miles from Palm Beach County’s suburban sprawl.
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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
Noun
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La Jolla Walk-In Campsite The La Jolla Walk-In Campsite is a small campground in dense chaparral in Point Mugu State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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Tour the goods on this 6.5-mile lollipop loop from the main trailhead to the upper grove.—
Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan,
Outside Online,
4 June 2025
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The film ends with a time-jump that shows Roz working in a human fruit grove, having reintegrated back into society.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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Set in over 70 acres of woodlands and riverfront beauty, this festival offers a vibrant celebration of cannabis with live music, rolling competitions, and a cup competition.—
Matt Rozo,
Mercury News,
3 June 2025
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Bobcats are secretive, rarely seen predators that most often live in the foothills, canyons, mesa and plateaus where brush and woodland are plentiful, according to CPW.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
29 May 2025
Noun
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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 19 Jun. 2025.
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