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Recent Examples of scrubland
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T. J. Diaz
25 Jun 2015
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The camera swoops in on the face of a cliff rising more than 100 meters from the surrounding scrublands.
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IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2015
Dust devils spun in the distance, moving like flying whirlpools across the scrubland.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony.
—Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Led To Safety By Richard De Gouveia In Richard de Gouveia’s Led to Safety, a female southern white rhino is guided away through the scrublands of South Africa’s Marataba Camps.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2015
Dust devils spun in the distance, moving like flying whirlpools across the scrubland.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony.
—Ari Caramanica, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025
Led To Safety By Richard De Gouveia In Richard de Gouveia’s Led to Safety, a female southern white rhino is guided away through the scrublands of South Africa’s Marataba Camps.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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These kelp forests help provide food and habitats for a wide variety of marine life, including fish, sea otters and seals, per the AP.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Access the boardwalk from either end using paths that wind through mangrove forests before opening to the 10-foot-wide boardwalk and observation deck.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 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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Behind him stands a little girl, less than half his size, wearing a red dress, a red bow poking from the thicket of her heavy black hair.—
Daniel Alarcón,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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Prospective buyers from these countries face a patent thicket, where a single drug may be covered by hundreds of patents.—
Nahim Bin Zahur,
The Conversation,
17 June 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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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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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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Here, nestled amongst pine woodlands and alongside a sparkling lake, our creative crew of pros fashioned a forever home and gathering place that beautifully reflects the region's natural splendor, as well as its rich history of architecture and design.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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The 30-room mansion is reportedly surrounded by shrubbery and woodland.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
5 Aug. 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 21 Aug. 2025.
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