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Recent Examples of Synonyms for greenwood
Noun
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Several rural areas of the county, former ranches and citrus groves, are currently in the process of selling and are being prepared for development.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025 -
And to a collective—of parents and grandparents and ancestors and olive groves and hillsides that endured and perished or endured and survived and passed on their memories and practices and language to me, to us.—
Cindy Juyoung Ok
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
Noun
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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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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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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
Noun
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Fabrice Pothier, then NATO’s director of policy planning, told me that officials confronted a thicket of bureaucracy and regulations governing the movement of military equipment across European borders.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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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
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“Greenwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/greenwood. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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