as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
That’s because well-off Angelenos tend to live on mountains and hillsides and in canyons that are covered in highly flammable chaparral, which are an excellent breeding ground for rapidly spreading fires, driven by Santa Ana winds of up to 100 mph.
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Todd Longwell, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2025
It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.
—Jeff Cercone, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
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Todd Longwell, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2025
It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.
—Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2025
The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.
—Jeff Cercone, Austin American Statesman, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
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Fudd was the first Husky to score after halftime, and got into a little bit of a scoring grove as the game went on finishing the game with 13 points, two rebounds and four assists.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2026
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The sprawling mountain-view grounds, centered on a spacious graveled courtyard ideal for entertaining, host an infinity pool and spa, a bocce court, and a 220-tree Italian olive grove.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
27 Mar. 2026
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The city of Atlanta announced the acquisition of the 50-acre Tatum Lakes property, marking a significant step toward turning the urban forest into a publicly accessible park and nature preserve.—
Riley Bunch,
AJC.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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These partnerships help highlight the series’ themes, promoting the discovery of the wonders hidden in the French forests and beyond, but also emphasizing respect for biodiversity, and the importance of food education for children.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
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Longtime fans may recall that on Thanksgiving Night 2009, Woods’ Cadillac Escalade collided with a fire hydrant, tree and several bushes near his Central Florida home, and he was ticketed with careless driving.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Calling a tall bush a tree does not make it so.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Could Iran end up like Libya, where a NATO air campaign in 2011 helped topple a decades-old dictatorship, but paved the way for the disintegration of the Libyan state into a thicket of rival factions and warring militias?—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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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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His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.—
Liam Rappleye,
Freep.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Captured by the photographer Lee Jaffe in 1983, Basquiat wears a wide-brimmed hat against a blue summer sky, a copse of softly out-of-focus trees visible in the background.—
Laura May Todd,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2026
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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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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
1 Apr. 2026
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The new four-door GT will use three electric motors to make around 1,000 brake horsepower and have a range of around 400 miles, numbers that have become the new standard, more or less, for luxury EVs.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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