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Recent Examples of scrubland
From Montana’s high plains to the rolling scrublands of Texas, expansive ranches—some rivaling national parks in size—are being scooped up at staggering prices.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
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
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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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 June 2025
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
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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The terrain transitioned to a blend of forest and hills.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The initiative aims to restore about 30 acres of forest, with the potential to unlock up to $376 million in future financing.—
Tarciana Medeiros,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The strategy has helped to transform land that’s naturally an arid mix of coastal sage and chaparral and deserts into an economic and cultural powerhouse.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
24 Aug. 2025
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It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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With deer lying tight in the thickets along the streams, stalking mistakes would be easy to make.—
Jim Moore,
Outdoor Life,
8 Oct. 2025
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The entire property bursts with thickets of shaggy palm trees, enormous birds of paradise, and other tropical plants.—
Sarah Buder,
AFAR Media,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Aquitaine countryside unfolds in a collage of khaki, tan, and green, dotted with little ponds and copses of trees.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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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
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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The Gardens at Lake Merritt were built in the 1950s and feature 7 acres of idyllic water-and-forested space including bonsai and rhododendron groves.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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By late September, the aspen groves in and around the city turn luminous gold, making hikes at Mount Falcon, Red Rocks Park, or along the Cherry Creek Trail feel downright cinematic.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The bigberry manzanita is a large, evergreen shrub native to California and Baja California, thriving in chaparral and woodland habitats.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Allsbrook was last seen wearing a brown woodland style camouflage shirt or jacket, black shorts and black shoes, police said.—
Amy McDaniel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Oct. 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 16 Oct. 2025.
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