as in bushes
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thickets
Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.
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Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets.
—Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
They can also be seen around mountains, swamps, cane thickets, wooded stream corridors, and rural habitats.
—Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026
These highly adaptable plants tend to sucker to form small but manageable thickets.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
For the bluebuck, the company is partnering with the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies to navigate regulatory thickets in potential host countries where the animals could live on wild land with the proper vegetation and climate, in herds large enough to be genetically viable.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
The solution, Shive and Conway said, is removing many of the overgrown smaller trees that surround the giant sequoias in dense thickets, like white fir, red fir and incense cedar.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
The oasis is packed with dense thickets of date palms and banana plantations.
—Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026
The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets.
—Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
They can also be seen around mountains, swamps, cane thickets, wooded stream corridors, and rural habitats.
—Jack Armstrong, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 3 June 2026
These highly adaptable plants tend to sucker to form small but manageable thickets.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
For the bluebuck, the company is partnering with the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies to navigate regulatory thickets in potential host countries where the animals could live on wild land with the proper vegetation and climate, in herds large enough to be genetically viable.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 29 Apr. 2026
The solution, Shive and Conway said, is removing many of the overgrown smaller trees that surround the giant sequoias in dense thickets, like white fir, red fir and incense cedar.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2026
The oasis is packed with dense thickets of date palms and banana plantations.
—Julie Bourdin, NPR, 11 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thickets
Noun
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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 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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A little over a month later, another spell of freezing weather bullied its way into Central Florida and slammed the remaining citrus groves that had just started to recover.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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The National Museum of Korea is a short walk from my home, set among bamboo groves and pagodas.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
11 June 2026
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Visitors can experience Botany Bay’s gorgeous natural ecosystems that include maritime forests, salt marsh, tidal creeks, freshwater ponds, and hammock islands.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
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The Pacific Bin — Devon Loerop Built from five shipping containers, the Pacific Bin is a shipping-container house situated in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, just an hour from Seattle.—
Caitlin Gunther,
Architectural Digest,
17 June 2026
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What begins as a survival nightmare slowly transforms into something far more disturbing as fractured memories, conflicting realities, and hidden truths force Ann to confront the possibility that the greatest threat may not be lurking in the woods at all, but buried deep within her own psyche.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
15 June 2026
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Kayali Vanilla 28 is sensual on its own, with deep, dark vanilla accented by jasmine and woods, but Chris Collins’ Harlem Nights turns it into something R-rated.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
15 June 2026
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“Thickets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thickets. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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