thicket

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Recent Examples on the Web Young oaks create an understory that turns colorful in autumn, thickets of wild rose line the trail with carpets of fleabane and yarrow. Pinetop Springs forms another marshy area near the halfway point of the hike. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2024 Day 1 Morning and afternoon Wake up well before dawn and make your way through a thicket of forests buzzing with cicadas to view the beautiful spectacle of daybreak lighting up the skies above the corn-cob spires of Angkor Wat. Chaitali Patel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2024 Beyond the thickets of trees, where birds sheltered from the rain, lay mud huts built by Mackenzie’s followers. Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024 When the target, a Hezbollah operative, climbed out and fled into a roadside thicket, a second missile finished the job. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for thicket 

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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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