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Recent Examples of scrubland
To the other, across a swath of scrubland dotted with auto-repair shops and small farms, was Jobar, a neighborhood of concrete apartment blocks.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
In fact, in 2024, over the summer, there was twice the average amount of biomass in grasslands and scrublands in coastal Southern California due to these two wet winters in a row.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But many areas of the Southwest are actually scrubland.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
In fact, in 2024, over the summer, there was twice the average amount of biomass in grasslands and scrublands in coastal Southern California due to these two wet winters in a row.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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Those who have lived intimately, socially, and emotionally with their forest home understand this.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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In North Carolina, the U.S. Forest Service said fire crews were working to contain multiple wildfires burning in four forests across the state on Sunday.—
Stephen Sorace,
Fox News,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
11 Feb. 2025
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After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Western startups seek to create strong patents at their core and to develop thickets of IP to support them.—
Jim Euchner,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.—
Joseph O’Neill,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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The spectacle of corporations changing their posture in waves, like groves of saplings in a storm, may seem startling.—
Jeff Sommer,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Marchesi Alfieri At the intersection of Roero, Langhe, and Monferrato, in Italy’s storied Piedmont region, where vineyards meld among hazelnut groves and forests, the winemaking legacy of Marchesi Alfieri began in 1696.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Native to southeastern woodlands, oakleaf hydrangeas have vibrant fall color and attractive, exfoliating bark.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 Feb. 2025
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In woodlands much like this one in prehistoric Myanmar, from equatorial forests to those that survive through the long dormancy of polar nights, pieces of Cretaceous life are becoming encased in resin.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Feb. 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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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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