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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Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Years of research poke holes in that idea, and buyers navigating a thicket of add-on dealer costs would disagree.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2025
The area sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound is packed with maritime forests, sand dunes, and shrub thickets, all untouched, all wild, and all waiting patiently for visitors to explore.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
In 2004, the neuroscientist Uri Hasson (opens a new tab) and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel started carving a path through the thicket of voxels.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thicket. Accessed 2 Jul. 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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