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Recent Examples of scrubland
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into the forests of French Polynesia, marked with an animal-safe UV paint for tracking purposes, according to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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Its lush rooftop garden and 1,000-square-foot Vitoria Regia marble infinity pool transport you to the Brazilian rain forest with tropical flowers and palm trees swaying overhead.—
Katie Lockhart,
Robb Report,
27 Mar. 2025
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The trail begins among desert species like barrel cactus and creosote, followed by chaparral, scrub oak and manzanita.—
Dina Mishev Max Whittaker,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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In December 2023, Jonathan Majors walked through a dense thicket of news cameras and climbed into the back of a black Chevy Suburban pulling away from the criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan.—
Rebecca Keegan,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Mar. 2025
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Nor has the United States’ growing thicket of export controls and sanctions on Chinese firms and technology imports extracted significant concessions from Beijing.—
Nicholas Mulder,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2025
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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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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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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Visiting olive groves and tasting premium olive oils is a real delight, as every drop of olive oil tells its own story, its own tradition.—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Residents of the village fled the shelling and took refuge in neighboring villages and olive groves.—
Omar Albam and Kareem Chehayeb,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2025
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The backstory: In 1654, these some 7,500 acres of ancient woodlands and meadows were acquired by the aristocratic Clerk family (who still own it today), who quickly set about establishing it as a hub for the aesthetic and intellectual elite of their time.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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This woodland wildflower is adored for its unique blooms.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Mar. 2025
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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 15 Apr. 2025.
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