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Recent Examples of scrubland
That north-south artery through the scrubland and ranches of the Central Valley, Hawke notes, connects key places in Haggard’s life.
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Fire restrictions highlighted the urgency of staying safe in Arizona’s forests, deserts and scrublands.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
The incident occurred in the scrublands of western India, in the final years of British rule.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
Located in the scrublands of eastern Utah, Blind Frog Ranch just seems like another derelict property with its better days behind it.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
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Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 29 Aug. 2025
Fire restrictions highlighted the urgency of staying safe in Arizona’s forests, deserts and scrublands.
—Austin Corona, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
The incident occurred in the scrublands of western India, in the final years of British rule.
—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
Located in the scrublands of eastern Utah, Blind Frog Ranch just seems like another derelict property with its better days behind it.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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By the third lesson we were deemed capable of navigating the Proclou, a magical 3km blue run with wide sweeping slopes through the forest.—
Jaymi McCann,
TheWeek,
23 Jan. 2026
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In exchange, the people agreed to conserve 5,000 hectares of forest.—
Brianna Randall,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Eaton fire ripped through the Rubio Canyon Preserve, seriously damaging the canyon’s chaparral, coast sage scrub and riparian habitats.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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That’s because well-off Angelenos tend to live on mountains and hillsides and in canyons that are covered in highly flammable chaparral, which are an excellent breeding ground for rapidly spreading fires, driven by Santa Ana winds of up to 100 mph.—
Todd Longwell,
Variety,
12 Nov. 2025
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This wonderful, hardy, and disease-resistant tree gradually develops into a beautiful understory thicket, providing habitat for wildlife.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
21 Jan. 2026
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The plant in question actually consists of 70 Jurupa oak (Quercus palmeri) stem clusters, only three feet tall, that stand together as a flowering, non-acorn producing clonal colony in the form of a thicket, 82 feet long by 26 feet wide, estimated to be at least 13,000 years old.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
17 Jan. 2026
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Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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Except for two copses of skyscrapers in which our financiers—and finances—go up and down, London remains a fairly horizontal city.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
2 Nov. 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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Carmel-by-the-Sea and its gallery scene are a short drive south, while Pacific Grove offers Victorian architecture and monarch butterfly groves.—
Audrey T. Williams,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Outside are a kitchen, firepit, mature tree groves, ponds, a stream, meadows, and a heated driveway and sidewalks.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
26 Jan. 2026
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These secretive—but adorable—woodland carnivores nearly went extinct.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
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Pavlich recommends it for softening edges along pathways, beneath shrubs, or at the front of woodland-style beds.—
Marisa Suzanne Martin,
The Spruce,
21 Jan. 2026
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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 28 Jan. 2026.
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