as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
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Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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The sequoia saplings destined for Detroit are clones of two giants known as Stagg — the world’s fifth-largest tree — and Waterfall, of the Alder Creek grove, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles.—
Corey Williams,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Twisty olive trees from past groves grew along with towering sycamores, eucalypti, and deodar cedars.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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Over the subsequent decades, Earth Day has spread around the globe as more and more countries call for environmental regulations to protect the planet’s air, water, forests and wildlife from industrial pollution and greenhouse gases that are harming our climate.—
Andrew Torgan,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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In Singapore, entire skyscrapers are now wrapped in vertical forests, a concept pioneered by architect Stefano Boeri.—
Ximena Araya-Fischel,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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The grizzly boiled out of the thicket and came plowing uphill at a dead run, ready to tackle all nine of us.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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MoffettNathanson noted the thicket of issues that Apple has to navigate regarding tariffs — and that the company is caught in the middle because of China’s importance in the global electronics supply chain.—
Kevin Williams,
Quartz,
22 Apr. 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 eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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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
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The island is thick with bush, and there are many places for a small dog to hide.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025
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Lamb’s residence was fenced and shielded from view by bushes.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, General Motors GM.N filed a petition with NHTSA seeking permission to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles annually without human controls such as brake pedals or mirrors.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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When one team brakes and another wants to speed ahead, the instinct might be to force alignment.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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