variants
also boskage
as in bush
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the land was dotted with tangled boscage that slowed any passage through it
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Noun
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Look at nature and consider the fact that although bushfires destroy, there are certain bushes that only grow as a result of that bushfire.—
Simone Milasas,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025 -
The key is to ensure the plants and bushes aren't touching each other and the house, acting like a highway for the flames.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Thoughtful touches like the frameless mirrors, raised center console to help touching the display, and the lack of a start/stop button (just press the brake to switch it on) all bring a sense of cohesion.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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At the height of her fame and the start of her family life, Diaz chose to put the brakes on her red-hot career.—
Aaron Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The controversial decision allows litigants to block restoration projects by requiring duplicative analysis at both the project level and the forest plan level any time new information emerges about an endangered or threatened species in that forest.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Related Stories Fire rages in the forest one night when the village’s de facto guardian Maxim (Willem Dafoe), and his troupe of gun-toting child troglodytes trained in his image, hunt the Ochi (humans blame them for the disappearance of farm animals).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The diplomatic tangle was particularly complicated for Italy, which is a historic ally of Washington but maintains good relations with Tehran.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Letting the roast simmer for hours in a mixture of pickled jalapeño brine and fish sauce yields a fall-apart tangle of meat that’s wildly good on soft rolls or over piles of rice.—
Margaux Laskey,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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Business leaders, lawmakers, legal scholars and influencers who make money on TikTok are watching to see how Trump tries to resolve a thicket of regulatory, legal, financial and geopolitical issues with his signature.—
Sally Ho,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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On many other fronts, Trump’s most contentious executive actions are sure to meet a thicket of court challenges.—
Calvin Woodward,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Southern California is dominated by shrublands known as chaparral.—
Hannah Singleton,
WIRED,
21 Jan. 2025
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Phillip, 48, went outside and hiked into the gullies to cut away brush and chaparral until there was nothing flammable left within several hundred feet of the house.—
Eli Saslow,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 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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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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