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Recent Examples of scrubland
With wide beaches at the shore and scrublands inland, the largest colony of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) are found here—there are around 400,000 breeding adults.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
In response, tens of thousands of Brazilians left dry scrublands in the northeast and other poor areas for the lush Amazon basin -- a mass internal migration that only increased in size throughout the 1970s and beyond.
—Jeff Tollefson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2013
Southwest The succulent scrub and desert scrublands of the Southwest offer pacing, pain, and fragrance.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Many penguin species huddle together in massive colonies, but pairs of yellow-eyed penguins go out of their way to be alone, nesting deep in New Zealand’s scrublands and forests out of sight of other penguins.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
In response, tens of thousands of Brazilians left dry scrublands in the northeast and other poor areas for the lush Amazon basin -- a mass internal migration that only increased in size throughout the 1970s and beyond.
—Jeff Tollefson, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2013
Southwest The succulent scrub and desert scrublands of the Southwest offer pacing, pain, and fragrance.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
Many penguin species huddle together in massive colonies, but pairs of yellow-eyed penguins go out of their way to be alone, nesting deep in New Zealand’s scrublands and forests out of sight of other penguins.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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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
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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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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
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The castaway lifted his eyes slightly, barely making out the thick copse of palm trees dotting the horizon.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
7 Sep. 2023
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In fall, the Valley glows yellow and gold thanks to copses of aspen and cottonwood trees.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes,
28 Nov. 2023
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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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Western monarchs rely on overwintering groves along the California coast, some of which are now proposed to be designated as critical habitat for the species.—
Sharmeen Morrison,
The Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Sylmar is yet another Los Angeles, remote and rugged, far to the north in the San Fernando Valley, an arid swath of ranches and working-class suburbs once known for its groves of olive trees.—
Shawn Hubler,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Snowdrops are perennials, perfect for naturalizing and planting in rock gardens, at the edges of woodlands, or forced indoors in containers.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2025
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The other, in the woodlands north of Mount Shasta near the Oregon border, will be the Sáttítla National Monument.—
Lisa Friedman,
New York Times,
7 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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“Scrubland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrubland. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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