wildwood

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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. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wildwood
Noun
  • Set between Ostuni and Ceglie Messapica and surrounded by silvery olive groves, the Masseria Silentio is a former Masseriola, or rural farmhouse, dating back to the 18th century.
    Lucrezia Worthington, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 June 2026
  • The park preserves two groves of giant sequoias along with forest trails, picnic areas and summer camping options.
    CBS News, CBS News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
    Liam Rappleye, Freep.com, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Back then, similarly frustrated with the difficulties of the commute, my dad would park off the shoulder of the Route 3 off-ramp, in the mud next to a thicket of phragmites.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry.
    Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026

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“Wildwood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wildwood. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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