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
A Burnham-led government should look at cutting the "thicket of regulation" and simplify the "stupendously complex" tax code, Haldane believes.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
We scurried after it and hid in a thicket of dead vines and pokeweed.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Mr. Schaller spent three years studying lions in Africa, once crawling through thorny thickets to count cubs a lioness had hidden there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Below are thickets of green chaparral and densely packed homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 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
They slept uneasily during the middle of the day, in some hollow of the land, or hidden under the tangled thorn-bushes that grew in thickets in many places.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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