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Recent Examples of scrubland
To the other, across a swath of scrubland dotted with auto-repair shops and small farms, was Jobar, a neighborhood of concrete apartment blocks.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
In fact, in 2024, over the summer, there was twice the average amount of biomass in grasslands and scrublands in coastal Southern California due to these two wet winters in a row.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
In fact, in 2024, over the summer, there was twice the average amount of biomass in grasslands and scrublands in coastal Southern California due to these two wet winters in a row.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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One day, Dieter convinced his brother to run away from home and explore the forest.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
7 Feb. 2025
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Fairweather thinks that Texas could invest more in preventing fires, by managing forests and mandating fire resiliency in building codes and infrastructure like utilities, as well as increase funding and effectiveness of fire departments.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 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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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
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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
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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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
Noun
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Every year the club has a camping retreat at the grove under tight security.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
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In addition to captivating views of the Magra Valley and Apennine Mountains, the property offers 14 distinct rooms, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and olive groves.—
Carissa & Dino Tozzi,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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Insiders claimed to the Daily Mail that Andrew’s 30-room mansion is surrounded by shrubbery and woodland, as the flowers that once bloomed are nowhere to be seen.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
28 Jan. 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 20 Feb. 2025.
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