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Examples of thicket in a Sentence
Celia Wren, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
Their message is that the countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense.
—Roger Cohen Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Surprises emerge around every bend in the forms of oak thickets, quartz deposits, errant water birds and lakeside riparian vegetation.
—Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
New faces broke through the Eastside’s political thickets: Rocky Delgadillo became city attorney in 2001, while Huizar replaced Villaraigosa as the 14th District’s council member in 2005.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Each day, near sunset, a small thicket of people, members of Manhattan’s birding community, could be found stalking through the park with long lenses, night- and heat-vision goggles, and thousands of dollars’ worth of other equipment, loving him from a distance.
—Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Wade ran the grand jury process for Willis over more than six months, guiding the jurors through hundreds of hours of testimony, thousands of documents and a thicket of legal and evidentiary issues.
—Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2024
In challenging Orange Book listings, the FTC is trying to cut away at what are known as patent thickets.
—Elisabeth Rosenthal, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2024
But beneath that question lies a thicket of complex and unprecedented questions.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Middle English *thikket, from Old English thiccet, from thicce thick
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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