variants
also boskages
as in bushes
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the land was dotted with tangled boscage that slowed any passage through it
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Noun
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My dad was this very outdoors-y Eagle Scout/camping guy, and that man-of-the-woods element was a big thing for me.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
22 June 2026 -
The show pays tribute to all the eras the pond jumpers have visited by showing fan-favorite characters peeking out from the woods to watch the nuptials as well.—
Megan Vick,
Variety,
22 June 2026
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A little over a month later, another spell of freezing weather bullied its way into Central Florida and slammed the remaining citrus groves that had just started to recover.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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The National Museum of Korea is a short walk from my home, set among bamboo groves and pagodas.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 June 2026
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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2026
Noun
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Visitors can experience Botany Bay’s gorgeous natural ecosystems that include maritime forests, salt marsh, tidal creeks, freshwater ponds, and hammock islands.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
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The Pacific Bin — Devon Loerop Built from five shipping containers, the Pacific Bin is a shipping-container house situated in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, just an hour from Seattle.—
Caitlin Gunther,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
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Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.—
Chris Nashawaty,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 June 2026
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The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets.—
Pavlo Fedykovych,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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“Boscages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boscages. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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