thicket
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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
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 thicket of partnerships has sprung up in autonomous driving, with Uber also working with Waymo in US cities Austin and Atlanta, and with China's WeRide in Gulf locations such as Abu Dhabi.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
A nonprofit credit counselor can help you navigate the thicket of options that different creditors might offer on different types of debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
These efforts give me just enough time and space to dive diagonally out of the carnivorous thicket.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
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
Love him or hate him — and there’s little in between — they have long considered him an escape artist through career-spanning thickets of legal, business and political thorns.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
We could hear his angry rumbling as he moved down through the thickets of catclaw and scrub oak.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
Vocabulary lists containing thicket
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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