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scrubby

[skruhb-ee] / ˈskrʌb i /


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Known as "the jungle", the camp is a scrubby patch of land beside a road and a railway line.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Kharg Island, targeted in US air strikes on Saturday, is a scrubby stretch of land in the Gulf that handles almost all of Iran's crude exports.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

Should I use precious column inches teasing out the scrubby understeer of a Toyota Sienna minivan?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It was a landscape of scrubby shrubs and chaparral and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

The unused field had a scrubby rise hiding its far side.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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