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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began: There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025 -
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.—
Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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