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Recent Examples of thicket Here and there are thickets of flush summer trees, but rare is the spot of shade to be found in the natural landscape. Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 Business leaders, lawmakers, legal scholars and influencers who make money on TikTok are watching to see how Trump tries to resolve a thicket of regulatory, legal, financial and geopolitical issues with his signature. Sally Ho, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025 On many other fronts, Trump’s most contentious executive actions are sure to meet a thicket of court challenges. Calvin Woodward, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025 Mostly we are annoyed by inane thickets of regulation and are suckers for a politician who vows to sweep them aside. Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for thicket 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
  • The whole sequence was shot in the forest with John Turturro on a day that just happened to be extremely foggy.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Sai Yok rock geckos live on karst rock formations in a forest at an elevation of about 1,300 feet, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Around the world, millions of acres of orange trees have succumbed, and in the past 20 years, production in Florida’s storied orange groves, which once supplied the majority of America’s juice, has declined 92 percent.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • One notable casualty is the Andrew McNally House, a rambling Queen Anne Victorian that once stood alone amid citrus groves in Altadena.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Authorities say one issue is smoldering hot spots that can burn into the root systems of trees and bushes causing fires to linger.
    Anissa Reyes, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The flames spread to a tractor-trailer and some surrounding bushes, according to authorities.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
    Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Sliced thinly, the central ingredients create a towering tangle of crunch.
    Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2025
  • With estuaries full of reptiles, swooping egrets, and thick tangles of mangroves decorated in Cajun hibiscus, this is wild Louisiana.
    Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025

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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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