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Recent Examples of scrubland
They are typically found in more arid scrublands or coconut plantations, the zoo said, and feast on grass, flowers, berries and fruit.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Pros will play it as a par 4 – with sandy scrubland to the right and thick rough to the left.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That north-south artery through the scrubland and ranches of the Central Valley, Hawke notes, connects key places in Haggard’s life.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Fire restrictions highlighted the urgency of staying safe in Arizona’s forests, deserts and scrublands.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Pros will play it as a par 4 – with sandy scrubland to the right and thick rough to the left.
—Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That north-south artery through the scrubland and ranches of the Central Valley, Hawke notes, connects key places in Haggard’s life.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Fire restrictions highlighted the urgency of staying safe in Arizona’s forests, deserts and scrublands.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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These king cobras prefer the cool, rainy montane forests along Goa’s eastern border, not the dry, lowland western part of the state, says study co-author Hinrich Kaiser, a herpetologist at Victor Valley College in California.—
Richard Kemeny,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2026
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When medicine can't treat her cancer, a dying youngster (Zelda Adams) reaches out to a forest witch (Toby Poser) who uses dark magic to cheat death, but there's a serious cost involved in this rich and artfully crafted scary movie.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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In the hills, in the hollows, up the draws and the old dirt logging roads, hidden in the chaparral above the fog line, growing and selling weed became a way of life, woven into the community and its economy.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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The Eaton fire ripped through the Rubio Canyon Preserve, seriously damaging the canyon’s chaparral, coast sage scrub and riparian habitats.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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This wonderful, hardy, and disease-resistant tree gradually develops into a beautiful understory thicket, providing habitat for wildlife.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
21 Jan. 2026
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The plant in question actually consists of 70 Jurupa oak (Quercus palmeri) stem clusters, only three feet tall, that stand together as a flowering, non-acorn producing clonal colony in the form of a thicket, 82 feet long by 26 feet wide, estimated to be at least 13,000 years old.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
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Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Except for two copses of skyscrapers in which our financiers—and finances—go up and down, London remains a fairly horizontal city.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
2 Nov. 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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Upon seeing it, the couple flipped for Ksar Char-Bagh, a 14th-century Moorish-style palace-turned-riad located within a palm grove.—
Kaitlin Menza,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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These includes songs, dances and rituals that identified important communal resources such as springs, sacred groves and migration paths.—
Melinda Laituri,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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The woodland area — which is part of the greater Windsor Estate and leads straight to Windsor Castle — also features golf courses, farms and the famed Ascot Racecourse.—
Kayla Keegan,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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Mass them in shady borders, foundations, or woodland gardens.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Jan. 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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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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