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Recent Examples of wildwoodRight 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.—Sara Stridsberg
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025 My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2025
The tracks of Eastern cottontail are also a common sight — especially near thickets of chokecherry, elderberry and other bushes that provide safe shelter.
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Susan Koch,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
But anyone willing to consider the thicket of fears, affections and recriminations that grows through the cracks of a long relationship will find in these pages an almost unbearable tenderness.
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