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Recent Examples of scrubland
Thursday night’s detonation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test produced a spectacular fireball over Florida, sending shards of the rocket flying far and wide, into the sea and across the coastal scrubland nearby.
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
29 May 2026
So is neighboring Idaho, home to a federal nuclear lab, and Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox recently staged a press conference in the barren scrubland west of Salt Lake City.
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Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
2 May 2026
The Church of Latter-Day Saints (which provided much of the original scrubland for the Inland Port) is welcoming of immigrants and has helped settle generations of refugees and international converts to the Mormon faith.
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Nick Miroff,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these still cost more than farmland or scrubland.
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Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
29 May 2026
So is neighboring Idaho, home to a federal nuclear lab, and Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox recently staged a press conference in the barren scrubland west of Salt Lake City.
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Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
2 May 2026
The Church of Latter-Day Saints (which provided much of the original scrubland for the Inland Port) is welcoming of immigrants and has helped settle generations of refugees and international converts to the Mormon faith.
—
Nick Miroff,
The Atlantic,
7 Apr. 2026
Such projects can and often are placed on old landfill properties, but these still cost more than farmland or scrubland.
—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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The humidity lifts, replaced by bright, mild days made for the historic streets of Savannah and Charleston, or the maritime forests and salt marshes beyond them.
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There are brisk 7am forest walks, group yoga, breath work, and a class on Lanserhof healing exercises, which combine stretching, tapping, and movement.
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An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.
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As the Eaton and Palisades fires roared across the Altadena area and the coastal Santa Monica Mountains in January 2025, the flames were fueled in part by accumulations of bone-dry chaparral, brush and other vegetation.
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The new ones appear reassuringly sturdy, even without the thicket of cross-braces that typically fence off the sidewalk from the street.
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The answer appears to be that, while such a pathway may be possible, hacking it through the thicket of health care economics and politics would require dozens — or even hundreds — of difficult choices.
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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
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His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
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Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.
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Here, the train rolls into one of Scotland’s most remote stations, arriving via a line built up on a raft of roots and brushwood because traditional foundations failed in the boggy ground.
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The Shelter Island porch stretches the entire width of the house, which nestles in a grove of trees about 250 feet from the shore.
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But all of it—the estate, the vineyards, the olive groves, the food, and the pace—is part of the same story.
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These emerge in spring from woodland pools, feed on deer, and some infected females lay eggs that already carry the virus.
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His father's body was found Tuesday outside the property, which was in a woodland area northeast of the northern city of Thessaloniki.
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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.
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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