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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrublands
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Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name.
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Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.
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An unusually dry and hot winter has created dangerously flammable conditions in forests and grasslands across the West.
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Visitors moved from the sandstone cliffs of Antelope Canyon to the dappled light of the Ponderosa forests, and then the bright starscape of the Sonoran Desert.
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But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
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Known as Villa Uglione, the estate sits high on a hill near the quiet villages of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Barberino Val d’Elsa, surrounded by rolling vineyards and olive groves.
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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
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The best spots for birdwatching are the trails and 1,000-foot-long boardwalk within the 164 acres of woodlands that make up the Audubon Bird Sanctuary, on the island’s eastern side.
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Head to Lanhydrock—a quintessential Cornish country house set across nearly 1,000 acres of glorious gardens and woodlands.
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Royce Ben Jameson was arrested on suspicion of the offense of firing woods or prairie and third-degree criminal trespass.
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According to a medical examiner, the infant had likely been in the woods for only about 12 hours before being discovered.
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Tredessa Travers and her daughter, Kennedy, headed straight for water ice stands.
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A couple thousand Bosnian fans, most in royal blue shirts, wedged into the south stands.
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About 21% of California’s national forestlands are protected.
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“Scrublands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrublands. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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