as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thicket
But to exempt them, state legislators would need find them in the thicket of Medicaid programs and pathways, and the staff who know this landscape may soon be gone.
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Danilyn Rutherford, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Moreover, incoming presidents have long vowed to pare back the thicket of government regulation.
—Zachary Karabell, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2025
In the thicket of this new Trump era, these gains among black Americans are noteworthy and certainly beyond a threshold of statistical normality.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Feb. 2025
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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Danilyn Rutherford, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Moreover, incoming presidents have long vowed to pare back the thicket of government regulation.
—Zachary Karabell, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2025
In the thicket of this new Trump era, these gains among black Americans are noteworthy and certainly beyond a threshold of statistical normality.
—Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Feb. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2025
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More than 50 percent of the 751 million acres of forest land in the US is privately owned, and these owners decide how their land is managed.—
Kiley Price,
WIRED,
15 Mar. 2025
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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Spring brings a lush wisteria canopy, summer ripens the citrus groves and autumn drapes the courtyard in gold.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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In 1982, researchers traveling through the Ayacucho region of Peru discovered a small amphibian in the mountain coffee groves.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 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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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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For example, summer offers bushes for hiding, while winter’s snow will crunch under your feet, potentially alerting enemies.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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It’s abandoned now and has fallen into disrepair, with broken slats on the wood steps and prickly bushes growing over the front porch.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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All the while, the brain hosts an even more complex tangle of chemicals.—
Elana Spivack,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2025
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The fighting is fueled by the region’s vast mineral wealth, and driven by a tangle of ethnic and political conflicts, as well as decades of bad governance.—
Patricia Huon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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