thicket
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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
The trade-off for markets, and indeed for the economy as a whole, is whether a Warsh-led Fed, and its pursuit of independence, can navigate the thicket of complexity expected over the coming year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Three Huntsmen pressed toward Fflewddur and the dwarf, forcing them into a thicket.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Then brush, predominantly whitethorn and manzanita, interspersed in waist-high thickets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025
The camera tracks the characters with startling skill and speed, from above, below, alongside and even behind as they rush through groves and thickets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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
Maybe the dawn woke the instinct in the dim memory of the blood when horses had been as wild as the deer and at sunrise went into the trees and thickets to hide.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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