as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thicket
Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Just west of the colorful Punda district, this city park was constructed to pay homage to one of the Caribbean’s most crucial—and vulnerable—ecosystems, with plenty of dense mangrove thickets that harbor all sorts of indigenous species.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Harrington, his caddy, and fellow golfers Cink and Justin Leonard trampled through thickets beyond the green like a trio of senior-aged Goonies, Harrington peering helplessly into reeds and bushes before re-teeing and accepting a penalty stroke for a lost ball.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
But his students are cutting their own path through infinity’s thickets.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
Just west of the colorful Punda district, this city park was constructed to pay homage to one of the Caribbean’s most crucial—and vulnerable—ecosystems, with plenty of dense mangrove thickets that harbor all sorts of indigenous species.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Harrington, his caddy, and fellow golfers Cink and Justin Leonard trampled through thickets beyond the green like a trio of senior-aged Goonies, Harrington peering helplessly into reeds and bushes before re-teeing and accepting a penalty stroke for a lost ball.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 June 2025
But his students are cutting their own path through infinity’s thickets.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
19 Aug. 2025
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The decision to add to the more than 1,400 troops already on wildfire duty came as authorities struggled to contain forest blazes.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 2025
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The public university, which has served primarily Black students for more than 50 years, sits on a gorgeous, 161-acre campus, clustered with copses of stately trees that make the grounds look something like an East Coast institution with a far longer lineage than CSU.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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And hidden away in a centuries-old pine grove, Hotel Pineta is an oasis for larger families, with double and triple rooms and an enticing, lagoon-style pool that meanders through the lush environs.—
Alexandra Kirkman,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Droughts in Thailand and India boosted global sugar prices, while parched Spanish olive groves led to two years of soaring olive-oil prices.—
Mark Gongloff,
Mercury News,
13 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jablonski tried to run away but fell into some bushes when one of the officers pushed him.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Aug. 2025
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As newborns, the 10 puppies were tossed into a bush near the Mission Viejo Animal Service Center.—
Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
3 Aug. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2025
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In Arizona, wildfires in shrublands or chaparral can be fueled by invasive grasses, like cheat grass.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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The estate of Prince, who died in April 2016, has been involved in a tangle of lawsuits over ownership of the Purple One’s legacy.—
Andrew Flanagan,
Variety,
21 Aug. 2025
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Lithium orotate helped the mice reduce production of the amyloid plaques and tau tangles, and allowed the microglial cells to remove the plaques much more effectively.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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