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
Breaking through entails navigating a thicket of customer perceptions, expectations, and a general reluctance to try something new when the existing solution feels sufficient.
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Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Many more are expected to follow, as representatives from DOGE make their way through the thicket of federal agencies and offices.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Western startups seek to create strong patents at their core and to develop thickets of IP to support them.
—Jim Euchner, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
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Alexander Puutio, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Many more are expected to follow, as representatives from DOGE make their way through the thicket of federal agencies and offices.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Western startups seek to create strong patents at their core and to develop thickets of IP to support them.
—Jim Euchner, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
The thickets contain police officers, undertakers, insurance agents, attorneys, claims adjusters, benefits counsellors, human-resources workers, notaries, friends.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thicket
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In 2015, participating zoos began releasing the snails back into the forests of French Polynesia, marked with an animal-safe UV paint for tracking purposes, according to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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And Dorian, despite the visual inventiveness on display, does go a bit overboard and overlong at times, particularly in a late, extended scene that makes use of pre-recorded outdoor footage that allows more than one Snook to race through a forest.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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Iconic Architecture in Puglia Photo: Getty Images Often referred to as the heel of Italy’s boot, Puglia is a landscape of raw beauty and intense diversity (just look to its rocky coastlines, ancient olive groves, and quiet countrysides for proof).—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
10 Mar. 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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The animal could flee into a bush or pond and suffer a slow death.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2025
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The smooth surface of the amphibian enabled it to pass through meter-high bushes and sparse forest.—
Mike Hanlon,
New Atlas,
18 Mar. 2025
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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
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All the while, the brain hosts an even more complex tangle of chemicals.—
Elana Spivack,
Popular Science,
19 Mar. 2025
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The fighting is fueled by the region’s vast mineral wealth, and driven by a tangle of ethnic and political conflicts, as well as decades of bad governance.—
Patricia Huon,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Thicket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thicket. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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