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
Examples of thicket in a Sentence
a dense thicket of rosebushes
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Prospective buyers from these countries face a patent thicket, where a single drug may be covered by hundreds of patents.
—Nahim Bin Zahur, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
Even with that latitude, the industry is hemmed in by a growing thicket of legal uncertainty, especially around how these systems were trained in the first place.
—Lila Shapiro, Vulture, 4 June 2025
In the event that I get scraped by thickets on a hike or cut my foot on a rogue piece of glass, Vashe will keep it clean of foreign pathogens and bacteria while the healing process takes place.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thicket. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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thicket
noun
thick·et
ˈthik-ət 
1
: a thick usually small patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
2
: something resembling a thicket in being crowded together or impenetrable
a thicket of fans
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