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Recent Examples of scrubland
Dust devils spun in the distance, moving like flying whirlpools across the scrubland.
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Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 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
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
This expert guide will get you off the ground
T. J. Diaz
25 Jun 2015
10 min read
Photo: DJI
The camera swoops in on the face of a cliff rising more than 100 meters from the surrounding scrublands.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2015
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Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 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
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
This expert guide will get you off the ground
T. J. Diaz
25 Jun 2015
10 min read
Photo: DJI
The camera swoops in on the face of a cliff rising more than 100 meters from the surrounding scrublands.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2015
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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If in a forest, stay close to lower trees.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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At its core, writer-director Bretten Hannam‘s tale follows two siblings (played by Blake Alec Miranda and Forrest Goodluck) traveling through the titular haunted forest in order to exorcise some demons from their lives.—
William Earl,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Learn about the various lizards and snakes of Southern California’s mountains and chaparrals.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Plush lawns and thickets of towering palms unite the various structures, while a demilune hot tub faces the water alongside a stone terrace that steps down to the estate’s private 250-plus-foot crescent beach.—
Mark David,
Robb Report,
2 Sep. 2025
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The train crawls through one impressively lush landscape after another—around mountains; through valleys, jungles, forests, and tea plantations; and past thickets of palm trees waving gracefully in the humid breeze.—
Alesandra Dubin,
AFAR Media,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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She’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.—
Jess Thomson,
Wired News,
27 Aug. 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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Its double-skin façade of glass, metal and stone harmonizes with Helsinki’s historic waterfront, while interiors showcase Nordic nature through wooden structures, a skylit central hall and even a birch grove.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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What would become Geauga Lake Park started in 1887 as a train stop with a picnic grove.—
Chad Murphy,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The quiet woodland echoed with the gentle thud of the workers’ axes.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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That cute little woodland creature with a fuzzy tail can wreak havoc in the garden.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 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
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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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