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thicket

[thik-it] / ˈθɪk ɪt /
NOUN
dense growth of small trees or bushes
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Sable quickly got to work but soon ran into a thicket of litigation.

From The Wall Street Journal

The decision should be applauded, even as a thicket of legal questions it raises remains to be untangled in the years ahead.

From Washington Post

There are hazy effusions of brass; little thickets of rattling, shivering percussion; and whooshing, glistening strings that were a textural link to the Ives, as well as to Stravinsky’s “Petrushka,” which came after intermission.

From New York Times

Russia wandered into this thicket by allowing the Wagner private military group to recruit tens of thousands of convicts from penal colonies to fight and die in Ukraine, many near the eastern city of Bakhmut.

From New York Times

Cinderella’s Prince: If it were not for the thicket …

From Washington Post