thicket
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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
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
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
Behind us is the only opening of the picket fence—leading straight into the thicket, which is now closed up entirely.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Zookeepers then pivot to old-fashioned tracking, braving thickets of brambles and stinging nettles in search of footprints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
The deer made beds in shallow niches deep within the thickets where the oaks grew tall and made canopies of limbs and branches.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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