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
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+.
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
In the warmer months, the mountain air stays cool and refreshing—perfect for long days on the river or shaded hikes through rhododendron thickets.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
But then, the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2025
Twelve feet tall, these woven textiles bring a density, warmth, and transportive quality to the space—you’re suddenly within the thicket where the fairytale is unfolding.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2025
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Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
In the warmer months, the mountain air stays cool and refreshing—perfect for long days on the river or shaded hikes through rhododendron thickets.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
But then, the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat.
—Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2025
Twelve feet tall, these woven textiles bring a density, warmth, and transportive quality to the space—you’re suddenly within the thicket where the fairytale is unfolding.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
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The partial closure order was coordinated with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, along with multiple local, state, and federal agency cooperators, to identify the minimum area necessary for the safety of firefighting resources and forest visitors.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Cal Fire claims to manage half of Jackson to promote such old-forest conditions.—
John P. O’Brien,
Mercury News,
13 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
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Funga transplants fungi from healthy forests into commercial groves whose fungi are MIA and whose soil is nutrient-depleted from clear-cutting.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Preliminary post-fire assessments indicate that the effects of the fire within the groves were low to moderate, with some beneficial outcomes.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
15 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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Messages Robinson is believed to have sent on Discord stated a need to retrieve a rifle from a pick-up point, leaving the rifle in a bush, watching the area where a rifle was left and having wrapped the rifle in a towel, according to the affidavit.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Jurors saw some wobbling footage that appeared to be taken from inside a bush, though prosecutors did not explicitly make clear if the footage was taken from Routh's perch.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 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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Learn about the various lizards and snakes of Southern California’s mountains and chaparrals.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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Expect flocks of vibrant flamingos and tiny flitting hummingbirds spreading their wings over the turquoise waters and tangles of mangroves that unfold across lagoons that stretch parallel to the sea.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Rise Of The Two Philosophies For years, the default approach to multicloud networking was a chaotic, do-it-yourself affair, leading to a fragile, unmanageable tangle of siloed configurations.—
Serge Lucio,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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