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The drive to build is, at bottom, an effort to haul energy out of the litigation thicket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The department said the worker fell into a bamboo thicket, along with some heavy machinery.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Whether Mr. Ueda or Ms. Takaichi—or preferably both in concert—can navigate out of this thicket will determine whether the yen needs rescuing again soon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

Even with my eyes shut, I somehow see the waves lapping against the shore behind the tall thicket.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

Dense thickets of brambles, hawthorn, vines, and trees—called hedgerows—provided perfect hiding places for machine-gun nests.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti