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thicket

[thik-it] / ˈθɪk ɪt /
NOUN
dense growth of small trees or bushes
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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

To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

A thicket of partnerships has sprung up in autonomous driving, with Uber also working with Waymo in US cities Austin and Atlanta, and with China's WeRide in Gulf locations such as Abu Dhabi.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025

We wham into the thicket with a vengeance.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Then brush, predominantly whitethorn and manzanita, interspersed in waist-high thickets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

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

As we passed by the thickets, the birds broke into the quiet, not caring what we was about that morning.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson




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