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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
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As part of that effort, at group of women called the Green Brigade has successfully restored more than 1,000 hectares of mangrove forests in the Sundarbans, in eastern India.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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Roley's grandfather, Dale Roley, told the New York Times on Monday that the suspect was working for a tree company and had expressed interest in becoming a forest firefighter.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
1 July 2025
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But Voters Side With Trump Over Musk Add visiting the Morro Bay State Park to hike through salt marshes and coastal trails or walking along the boardwalk through pygmy oaks and chaparral in Elfin Forest to the itinerary.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The next time fire rips through the chaparral in surrounding hills (a question of when, not if) this cluster of homes is being built to keep the flames at the subdivision’s edge.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.—
Jamie Malanowski,
Air Mail,
21 June 2025
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In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.—
Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 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
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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
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Native ginger, Asarum canadense One standout groundcover found in woodlands from southern Canada, through the Midwest and eastern North America is the native ginger, Asarum canadense.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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Tamarack’s vintage cabins have access to woodland trails and a boat launch, private lawn area, a queen-sized bed and private bathroom with shower.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
23 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 11 Jul. 2025.
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