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The unique pull of Silicon Valley, and its unrivaled density of AI workers, companies and investors, has kept the money rolling in despite California’s dense thicket of regulations and uncertainty about the proposed billionaire tax.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

Museums trying to upgrade the security of historic buildings have to navigate a thicket of bureaucracy to secure permits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

Autumn looks to me with wide eyes and quickly signs, “Can we make it through the thicket like this?”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Caruso, 66, has deep experience in building — or attempting to build — in cities across the region and navigating thickets of red tape.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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

There would be thickets of red tape to negotiate and fines to pay.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer