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
The area sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the Currituck Sound is packed with maritime forests, sand dunes, and shrub thickets, all untouched, all wild, and all waiting patiently for visitors to explore.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
In 2004, the neuroscientist Uri Hasson (opens a new tab) and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel started carving a path through the thicket of voxels.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
But on January 11, 1937, a young man hunting rabbits south of Everett finds Charles’s naked, battered body dumped in a thicket of alders, knifed in the back and beaten in the head with a blunt instrument.
—Caroline Fraser
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
The Trump administration has been ensnared in a Lilliputian thicket of nationwide injunctions almost since the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in and began issuing executive orders.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
In 2004, the neuroscientist Uri Hasson (opens a new tab) and his colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel started carving a path through the thicket of voxels.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025
But on January 11, 1937, a young man hunting rabbits south of Everett finds Charles’s naked, battered body dumped in a thicket of alders, knifed in the back and beaten in the head with a blunt instrument.
—Caroline Fraser
june 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
The Trump administration has been ensnared in a Lilliputian thicket of nationwide injunctions almost since the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in and began issuing executive orders.
—The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
Noun
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This sanctuary consists of roughly 24 acres of wetlands, grasslands and forest.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 July 2025
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However, urban areas often have higher and more concentrated coyote populations than nearby deserts or forests due to easier access to food.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
14 July 2025
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Groundbreaking took place in July 1954 on a 160-acre orange grove in Anaheim about 22 miles south of Los Angeles.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
9 July 2025
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Silvery green olive groves produce the oil that’s served in the hotel’s three restaurants.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
9 July 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
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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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In 2018, the country industry's Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville — the final resting place of George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Porter Wagoner among many others — created the Lynn Anderson Rose Garden, consisting of over 100 hybrid tea rose bushes.—
Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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For example, animals learn that a photo of hands (A) is correct when paired with a classroom (B), a classroom (B) is correct when paired with bushes (C), bushes (C) are correct when paired with a highway (D), and a highway (D) is correct when paired with a sunset (E).—
Olga Lazareva,
The Conversation,
1 July 2025
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But Voters Side With Trump Over Musk Add visiting the Morro Bay State Park to hike through salt marshes and coastal trails or walking along the boardwalk through pygmy oaks and chaparral in Elfin Forest to the itinerary.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The next time fire rips through the chaparral in surrounding hills (a question of when, not if) this cluster of homes is being built to keep the flames at the subdivision’s edge.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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In my experience, most sea salt sprays require some sort of trade-off: either tons of volume but tangles, or great wave definition but very little body.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
Glamour,
26 June 2025
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One of the most aggressive garden invaders, bindweed rapidly rambles through perennials and shrubs, creating a leafy tangle of stems and foliage.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 June 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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