as in wrong
falling short of a standard
a hopelessly bush effort at creating a romantic comedy
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as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
a guide who specializes in taking adventurous tourists through the bush
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Recent Examples of bush
Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2022
Michelle Mastro, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The people are accused of setting trees, bushes, leaves and trash ablaze.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
The handy device is designed with a tri-bush system, complete with side brushes, channel brushes, and a multi-surface brushroll that work in tandem to pick up all the dirt, hair, and dander scattered around the house.
—Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2022
Noun
To keep track of the albino squirrels, the city spends three days in October counting them, with volunteers like Henton scanning tree branches, wandering through parks and peering under bushes in search of the critters.
—Michelle Mastro, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The people are accused of setting trees, bushes, leaves and trash ablaze.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bush
Adjective
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The question of the night is the choice between selling out their souls to the vapid American tourists at the Tropicana nightclub (bad) or singing for their own people on the wrong side of the tracks (good).—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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But Nicol isn’t wrong to think that the real entertainment is coming from inside the house, where the spry Gita may love nothing more than to be on camera.—
Stephen Saito,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Otherwise, there is not a great deal for miles around other than fields and countryside, cattle and birdsong and the occasional row of thatched cottages.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Radwan Alo fled his home in the countryside outside Qardaha, the hometown of the Assad family, and crossed the river into Lebanon.—
Hogir Abdo,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But for a lot of people following Markle's every move anything other than perfection is unacceptable.—
Alanna Bennett,
refinery29.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Finding escaped marsupials in the vast Australian outback may sound much harder than finding a needle in a haystack.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2025
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Take the story of the longest living trapdoor spider, who survived in the Australian outback to the ripe age of 43.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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As holidays go, however, Flag Day can feel a bit lame.—
Kevin Fisher-Paulson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
8 June 2021
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My 11-year-old loved watching the pups roll balls and play a giant floor piano, but for non-dog owners (guilty as charged), parts of the series—like dressing dogs in little hats and outfits for a Parisian fashion show—feel lame.—
Tim Neville,
Outside Online,
23 Nov. 2020
Noun
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While the politics of health and care do not always map onto war and its metaphors, public health is messy when new and virulent diseases take over a country in bereavement.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
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Even with the new deal, the original 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries will still go into effect on Wednesday as planned, according to White House spokesman Kush Desai.—
Michelle Stoddart,
ABC News,
11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But there is another concerning trend and area that has to be improved — their poor record on second balls.—
Rob Tanner,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Flooding may also occur in poor drainage and urban areas.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Celebrity can be as alluring as royalty to someone who grew up eating gruel in the hinterlands, though such concepts must be imparted somehow.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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From obscurity to fame Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six mountain ranges above the Sichuan basin, deep in China’s hinterland.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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“Bush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bush. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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