as in forest
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows
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Recent Examples of thicket
Kimmy towels off, changes into shorts and a long-sleeve shirt, and before long is bounding into the thickets on the south side of the lake, following an overgrown trail.
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Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
Other versions portray the Higgs field as akin to molasses, a thicket, a crowd of people or an expanse of snow.
—Matt Strassler, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
The northwoods of Wisconsin, with its dense thickets of pine forests, rushing rivers, summer camp-style cabins, hundreds of freshwater lakes, and supper clubs, has long been a year-round quiet and rural respite for Midwesterners—particularly Wisconsinites and Chicagoans.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2024
Of course, a big part of any Kushner production is the legendary playwright’s unique style of epic storytelling that incorporates compelling dialogue and a thicket of ideas both timely and eternal.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
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Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 Sep. 2024
Other versions portray the Higgs field as akin to molasses, a thicket, a crowd of people or an expanse of snow.
—Matt Strassler, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024
The northwoods of Wisconsin, with its dense thickets of pine forests, rushing rivers, summer camp-style cabins, hundreds of freshwater lakes, and supper clubs, has long been a year-round quiet and rural respite for Midwesterners—particularly Wisconsinites and Chicagoans.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2024
Of course, a big part of any Kushner production is the legendary playwright’s unique style of epic storytelling that incorporates compelling dialogue and a thicket of ideas both timely and eternal.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
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They also can be purchased through select vendors in the mountains that have partnered with the forests.John Meyer, The Denver Post, 9 Nov. 2024
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Loss of forest globally is a critical threat to biodiversity and climate change.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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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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Meaning: From the alder grove Alternative Spellings & Variations: Delany Faun A faun is a kind of mythical creature found in Pan’s Labyrinth.Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
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The Beach Terrace above is conceived as a lush oasis with a lagoon, a sandy beachfront and palm groves.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
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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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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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Midtown Manhattan appears in vivid detail, with the rest of the country—Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles—a hazy expanse of rocks, bushes, and fields on the other side of the Hudson River.Frederick Hess, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Spread gauze on bushes to mimic cobwebs with creepy DIY spiders.Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
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Here's what to do if that happens, or in any scary wildlife encounter Black bears are the only species of bear found in Arizona, and they can be found in forests, chaparral and desert riparian areas.John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
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West Coast/California California’s coastal sage scrub and mixed chaparral were a huge source of inspiration for us and can be found in different combinations from southern to northern California.Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
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Six weeks later, what began as a missing persons case became a murder mystery, as Karen's body was found hidden beneath a tangle of vines by a caretaker near Bledsoe Cemetery in Dyer County.Gemma Schneider, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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There’s also a big tangle of conflicting feelings and emotional contexts at play here.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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