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Recent Examples of scrubland
New Jersey Pine Barrens The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a large, beautiful national reserve in the southern part of the state, is a unique ecosystem composed of forests, scrubland and waterways.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
The first of two drones lifts off over the brown scrubland.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
Generally, the rich networks of plant life on Earth — from California’s coastal scrublands and marshes to the Amazon rainforest to the Sahara Desert — sequester carbon away from the atmosphere in their limbs, trunks and leaves.
—Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2025
The multiple wildfires that have ravaged the state, have destroyed tens of thousands of acres of trees and scrubland, as well as people's homes.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrubland
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2025
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More than 50 percent of the 751 million acres of forest land in the US is privately owned, and these owners decide how their land is managed.—
Kiley Price,
WIRED,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.—
Jeff Goodell,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.—
Anton Sorokin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Either in an Elite Eight game that should be a Final Four game, or earlier in the especially thorny thicket that’s facing them as the lowest top seed?—
Mirjam Swanson,
Orange County Register,
16 Mar. 2025
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Just consider the agony of merging two or more sprawling thickets of technology.—
Forbes,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The resort is perched on cliffs overlooking turquoise waters, surrounded by lemon groves and ancient ruins, but beneath its pristine façade lie secrets of exploitation, hypocrisy and clashing egos.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Step outside your door and into Carmel’s Mission Trail, where scenic views, oak groves, and serene pathways create the perfect extension of your backyard oasis.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Each spring and fall, the Forest Preserve District of Kane County conducts prescribed burns across prairies, woodlands and wetlands in an effort to restore and maintain the ecological health of a site, district officials said in a press release on Friday.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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Upon arrival, visitors are welcome to explore its sprawling woodlands, with vast forests of beech and fir playing host to a wealth of native Italian fauna.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 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 28 Mar. 2025.
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