thicket

thick·et | \ ˈthi-kət

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Definition of thicket

1 : a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees : copse

2 : something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability : tangle a political thicket a thicket of reporters

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a dense thicket of rosebushes flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

Recent Examples on the Web The move amounts to a vote of confidence in Baumann’s efforts to guide the German company through the thicket of Monsanto legacy lawsuits. — Jef Feeley, Bloomberg.com, "Bayer Extends CEO’s Contract, Sees Progress on Roundup Deals," 10 Sep. 2020 Enclosed within that ring, like a glade in a thicket of thorns, were the five unsuspecting years of my earliest childhood, before my mother got sick. — Ellen Pall, The New York Review of Books, "To Recover Mother," 25 Aug. 2020 The reader is left to fumble through a thicket of meaningless verbiage that pads out the narrative. — Patrick Mulholland, National Review, "The Making of the Celebrity Monarchy," 29 Aug. 2020 The rest chimed in then, proffering the ways and hows of oyster-eating—this, without any of us noting the sombre white man who had emerged from the thicket of pitch pine. — David Wright Faladé, The New Yorker, "The Sand Banks, 1861," 24 Aug. 2020 State law imposes a thicket of restrictions on how counties can spend hotel taxes, and the tourism industry lobbies hard to keep those restrictions in place. — Jason Garcia, orlandosentinel.com, "Orange County elections could decide fate of a $600 million convention center expansion," 4 Aug. 2020 The bill next heads to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where lawmakers will sort through a thorny thicket of legal issues that are embedded in the legislation. — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, "RTD oversight bill moves out of Senate committee but measure not ready for prime time," 3 Mar. 2020 Radcliffe’s statement was longer, but also offered no advice for navigating this legal and cultural thicket. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, "Harry Potter and the Desperate Urge for the World to Be Simple," 6 July 2020 For drinks importers, mitigating the tariffs is a challenge because of a thicket of rules and regulations over wholesale distribution that can leave few options on how to respond. — Paul Page, WSJ, "Today’s Logistics Report: Picking up the Last Mile; Charging for Inventory; Wine Imports Corked," 26 June 2020

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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thicket. Accessed 19 Sep. 2020.

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