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boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert
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Like dried brush on a hillside, dense thickets of horizontal rows of vertical dot-lines mark an exquisite painting by Yukultji Napangati. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Spectacular aboriginal paintings from Australia burst with deep, sacred beauty," 19 Aug. 2019 His improvisations are wanders through thickets, not lost but absorbed in the harmonic brush, picking up whatever is available. — Los Angeles Times, "Commentary: L.A. needs a summer music festival. Piano Spheres and Monday Evening Concerts show the way," 30 July 2019 After the album’s release, Petty ensnared himself in a second thicket of issues. — Michael Washburn, Longreads, "Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents," 9 July 2019 Yet the former special counsel need not say much to have his own quiet impact: His mere appearance will give voice to the 448-page legal thicket known as the Mueller report. — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, "Mueller to take center stage at Russia probe hearings," 24 July 2019 Before his bill passed out of committee, Cornyn scaled back another provision to address patent abuse, but the legislation takes steps to prevent drugmakers from deploying thickets of patents to deter competition. — Bill Lambrecht, ExpressNews.com, "Cornyn and GOP senators push to bring down prescription drug costs," 23 July 2019 The unnamed suspect was reported dead at approximately 11:45 p.m. after a high-speed chase saw his vehicle hit a thicket of trees near to the shoreline, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA). — Christopher Harress | Charress@al.com, al.com, "Man found dead on Mobile’s Bayway after 115 mph police chase ends with shootout," 12 July 2019 Facebook is wading into a regulatory thicket US law imposes a wide variety of legal requirements on companies that run payment networks. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency," 11 July 2019 Every so often, though, a thicket of high-rise apartments appears in the distance, shooting up from the horizon like the bristles of a laid-flat toothbrush. — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, "How Do You Say 'Cheesecake Factory' In Mandarin? Behind the Scenes of Life in the Chinese Basketball Association," 27 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'thicket.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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