as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thicket
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.
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Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
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
Then the old granddaddy of all the deer tribes came out of the thicket and followed the does.
—Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
And even those comprehensive streaming plans don’t get you every pro sports game, thanks to the thicket of exclusive deals the likes of MLB and the NFL have inked with standalone streaming options like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
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Mark David, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
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
Then the old granddaddy of all the deer tribes came out of the thicket and followed the does.
—Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
And even those comprehensive streaming plans don’t get you every pro sports game, thanks to the thicket of exclusive deals the likes of MLB and the NFL have inked with standalone streaming options like Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
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The François langur population primarily lives in the forests of China and Vietnam, where hunting and habitat destruction are major threats.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 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
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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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In 1979, five months after my seventh birthday, my father crashed his plane into an orange grove and died.—
Jon Michael Varese,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2025
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The property has a 1,600-square-foot garage/workshop equipped with power and water for the hobbyist or car collector, and a citrus grove with Satsuma mandarins, oranges, limes and lemons.—
David Caraccio,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 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 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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He was pursued by Gonzales-Magallanes and a juvenile suspect, who emerged from a hiding spot in some bushes and opened fire toward Othman, prosecutors alleged.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
23 Sep. 2025
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Law enforcement sources told amNewYork that while the man was relieving himself behind some bushes, two suspects on mopeds approached the car and demanded money from Linarez.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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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
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Box-out drills, tip drills, fighting through a tangle of pads for the ball drills.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Sep. 2025
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Thick, coarse hair does best with a hot-air brush that features strong, durable bristles and tangle-free features.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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