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
Achieving that in this kind of play, though, requires more of a surrogate parental relationship between these two characters and that needs two actors who more clearly occupy the same world and find a mutual way to drive on through its thickets.
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.
—Jamie Malanowski, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Fabrice Pothier, then NATO’s director of policy planning, told me that officials confronted a thicket of bureaucracy and regulations governing the movement of military equipment across European borders.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
For months, Democrats have been wandering in a thicket of words.
—Jamie Malanowski, Air Mail, 21 June 2025
In early January, Nadia emerges from the last thicket.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Fabrice Pothier, then NATO’s director of policy planning, told me that officials confronted a thicket of bureaucracy and regulations governing the movement of military equipment across European borders.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
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These kelp forests help provide food and habitats for a wide variety of marine life, including fish, sea otters and seals, per the AP.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Access the boardwalk from either end using paths that wind through mangrove forests before opening to the 10-foot-wide boardwalk and observation deck.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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The public university, which has served primarily Black students for more than 50 years, sits on a gorgeous, 161-acre campus, clustered with copses of stately trees that make the grounds look something like an East Coast institution with a far longer lineage than CSU.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 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 property also boasts Mediterranean olive groves and fragrant native plants designed by landscape architect Erik Dhont.—
India Brown,
Robb Report,
23 July 2025
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The four-mile trail passes through groves of Great Basin bristlecone pines, with trunks weathered by centuries of snow and sun.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
11 July 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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This has nothing to do with aesthetics—clearing out things like branches and bushes helps prevent any blockages or overcrowding.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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Alcazar drove after the teen, going onto the sidewalk near Harbor and La Habra Boulevard to strike him, breaking his leg and pinning him into some bushes while two of her sons got out of the SUV and repeatedly punched the defenseless victim, authorities said.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Pacific Palisades Fire, the largest of the state’s current wildfires, for example, began as a brushfire and spread through dense chaparral, a shrubland plant community common to the state.—
Jeff Cercone,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2025
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In Arizona, wildfires in shrublands or chaparral can be fueled by invasive grasses, like cheat grass.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
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At the river’s edge, a quarter-mile-long Mitsubishi factory was a mountainous tangle of steel.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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In contrast with the tangle of criminal cases which mostly stalled against Trump, Brazilian courts moved swiftly against Bolsonaro, threatening to end his political career and fracture his right-wing movement.—
Ricardo Brito,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.
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