as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thicket
In the thicket of this new Trump era, these gains among black Americans are noteworthy and certainly beyond a threshold of statistical normality.
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Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Feb. 2025
Stepping through the thicket is like being transported to another world — light shafts penetrate the canopy as the vegetation encloses you into beautiful woodland.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
As Jacob prowls through the dense thickets of Queen Elizabeth National Park, his every step—or leap—serves as a reminder of nature’s tenacity and the urgent need to preserve it.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
While updating the story for the screen, the screenwriters Gladys Unger, John Collier, and Mortimer Offner cut through the thicket to highlight Sylvia’s role-playing and confusion about her gender identity.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2024
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Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Feb. 2025
Stepping through the thicket is like being transported to another world — light shafts penetrate the canopy as the vegetation encloses you into beautiful woodland.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
As Jacob prowls through the dense thickets of Queen Elizabeth National Park, his every step—or leap—serves as a reminder of nature’s tenacity and the urgent need to preserve it.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
While updating the story for the screen, the screenwriters Gladys Unger, John Collier, and Mortimer Offner cut through the thicket to highlight Sylvia’s role-playing and confusion about her gender identity.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
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Those who have lived intimately, socially, and emotionally with their forest home understand this.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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In North Carolina, the U.S. Forest Service said fire crews were working to contain multiple wildfires burning in four forests across the state on Sunday.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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The spectacle of corporations changing their posture in waves, like groves of saplings in a storm, may seem startling.—
Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Marchesi Alfieri At the intersection of Roero, Langhe, and Monferrato, in Italy’s storied Piedmont region, where vineyards meld among hazelnut groves and forests, the winemaking legacy of Marchesi Alfieri began in 1696.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 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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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
Noun
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During the same interview, Mr. Trump praised the Secret Service agent who saw the rifle's barrel coming out of a bush.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2025
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According to two other witnesses, Blue Jr. hid two guns behind a bush in front of the building before officers arrived, the affidavit said.—
Natalie Demaree,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Focus on your waist, not just your weight As the size of a person’s belly grows, studies show the memory center of the brain shrinks and hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s disease can appear — namely beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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Unwinding the tangle of sanctions — as well as countermeasures enacted by the Russian government — would be a long and complicated process.—
Patricia Cohen,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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