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Recent Examples of scrubland
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.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
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The expansion wouldn’t include only farmland; part of the area is forest, and Desri plans to clear 46 acres of trees.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 May 2025
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At the Glen Oaks Resort Adobe Motor Lodge in Big Sur, the rooms huddle at the edge of a thick forest.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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Hazardous fire areas were considered to be at greater risk for wildfire due to their proximity to highly flammable vegetation including the native chaparral that is present in many areas of Poway’s open spaces.—
Christian Martinez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.—
Hugo A Loaiciga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
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On Rikers, a thicket of laws and lore, regulations and culture bind and barnacle decision-making.—
Elizabeth Glazer,
New York Daily News,
18 May 2025
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Fourteen years of civil war, and a thicket of financial restrictions imposed by the U.S. government and others, have crippled Syria, physically and economically.—
Ephrat Livni,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 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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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 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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The grove on the park’s southern edge, first set aside for protection by President Abraham Lincoln, contains giant sequoia trees reaching up to 285 feet tall, with bark more than a foot thick and dating back 2,000 years.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Agriculture was always a big draw for the area, which once featured abundant citrus groves and fruit-packing houses.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2025
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Native to the savannas and open woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, ostriches have evolved not for flight, but for speed and endurance.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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In 2010, a massive forest fire burned for four days on northern Israel’s Mt. Carmel, claiming 44 lives and destroying around 12,000 acres, much of it woodland.—
Ibrahim Hazboun and Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 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 24 May. 2025.
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