thicket
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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 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
Operating data centers in space would avoid an environmental thicket and require less water and energy for cooling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
To make this photo I crawled into a thicket of ferns at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
There was a dim glow pulsing from the middle of the hazel thicket, as if a tiny cloud of stars were glimmering there.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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
Stone wove drum machines into the dense thickets of sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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
By day they tried to sleep—under logs, in caves, in thickets.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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