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Recent Examples of wildwood
Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.
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Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildwood
Noun
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Spring and fall in general are the best times to get out and spot birds during migration, but small groves of trees and shrubs even in the middle of a city can host birds year-round.—
Karl Schneider,
IndyStar,
22 Sep. 2025
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As temperatures drop, nearby groves of aspen, willow, cottonwood, and other deciduous trees turn into a brilliant display of scarlet, gold, and orange.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Investigators were searching a remote and virtually uninhabitable area on Grindstone Mountain this week when a drone flying overhead detected something unusual in a thicket of trees.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
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As more and more birders gathered to see the bird, the animal became more reclusive and hid in a mesquite thicket.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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