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Recent Examples of scrubland
This is Everglades cattle country, with miles upon miles of slash pines and flat scrubland, pristine and still untouched by developers just 35 miles from Palm Beach County’s suburban sprawl.
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The land that surrounds the areas that burned is largely chaparral, a type of scrubland, said Ernesto Alvarado, a professor of forestry and forest fires at the University of Washington.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
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Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.
—Matt Kracht, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
The Wall Ranch, in Eagle Pass, Texas, occupies a thousand acres of scrubland along the Mexican border.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The land that surrounds the areas that burned is largely chaparral, a type of scrubland, said Ernesto Alvarado, a professor of forestry and forest fires at the University of Washington.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
20 June 2025
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The spa menu boasts a long list of bodywork treatments options, including the fire & ice massage, which soothes sore muscles with a combination of hot stones and cooling recovery balm, facials and body scrubs using ingredients from the forest, and a fireside massage package for two.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Much of that region is covered by chaparral and grassland, which can be very flammable.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
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La Jolla Walk-In Campsite The La Jolla Walk-In Campsite is a small campground in dense chaparral in Point Mugu State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 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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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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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
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
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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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Unlike its more aggressive non-native cousins, which have escaped cultivation into natural areas and woodlands, American wisteria is not invasive.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 June 2025
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All goes well at first as Jamie guides Spike through verdant woodlands and fields, reminding him to aim for the head or heart.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 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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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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