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Recent Examples of woodlot
Human activity has shaped the animals’ natural habitat, which covers a wide geographic range and many ecosystems, from low elevation forests to small woodlots, fields and pastures.
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USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
That success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home.
—Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
For that matter, Walden is organized by thematic chapters, because there’s not much plot to Thoreau spending some time in a shack on Emerson’s woodlot.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2021
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USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
That success has come despite fears among some in the settlement that the authorities, wanting to protect mature woodlots, one day might force the refugees to go back home.
—Rodney Muhumuza, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
Though smaller than most at 30 acres, Frost’s farm was typical of New England at the time, having a clapboard house, shed, barn and garden near the road, and fields, pastures, an orchard and a woodlot, all graced by low stone walls.
—Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
For that matter, Walden is organized by thematic chapters, because there’s not much plot to Thoreau spending some time in a shack on Emerson’s woodlot.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woodlot
Noun
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On the Lebanese side, brown farmland and olive groves are inaccessible now to their owners.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Banana farms, coconut plantations and citrus groves perished in the storm.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
28 Oct. 2025
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In 2023 Atlas Merchant Capital, a combined hedge and PE fund headed by former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond, worked with Houlihan as its advisor to MarshBerry, in a significant fund investment for that leading platform in the insurance brokerage space.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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Many of the large donors backing Cuomo are hedge funders.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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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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The Aquitaine countryside unfolds in a collage of khaki, tan, and green, dotted with little ponds and copses of trees.—
Anna Gaca,
Pitchfork,
1 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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Two days later, her car was found on Avery’s lot in a thicket of branches with a disconnected battery.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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There Sones found in a thicket of trees and underbrush a black ski mask.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There are beer stands, dessert carts and liquor bars throughout the ballpark.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Read this book aloud to your favorite young dancer, and then join me at the concession stand for a Carrot Cordial or a few Lettuce Linzers.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Woodlot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woodlot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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