thicket

It’s a thorny thicket that can keep us stagnant at the pivotal moments requiring the most courage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The pair try to evade the bison by running through a thicket of trees, but the animal eventually caught Isom-McDaniel.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Zvërnec has proved to be a thicket of Albanian property disputes, a common problem given that the country nationalized property during communism then underwent a messy process of returning it to private ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Operating data centers in space would avoid an environmental thicket and require less water and energy for cooling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The scent of rabbit drifts by, and I manage to down the thing in a thicket without much of a chase.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Participants spend months learning how to plant orchards, raise free-range livestock and tap syrup from the thickets of maple and sycamore trees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

Pygmy slow loris are a species of primate that comes from the rainforests and bamboo thickets of Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia and southern China.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025

Traveling along the Paraná, Darwin observed thickets which “afford a retreat for capybaras and jaguars. The fear of the latter animal quite destroyed all pleasure in scrambling through the woods.”

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2024

Nothing commemorates the site, only rubble and faded signs in overgrown thickets where hundreds of men once toiled and sometimes died.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam