thicket
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- thicketed adjective
- thickety adjective
Etymology
Origin of thicket
before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix
Example Sentences
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Along a remote stretch of the north Somerset coast, views of rolling hills and farmhouses are suddenly interrupted by a thicket of construction cranes.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 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
If you peer into the mind of a model, what you find won’t be recognizably human; it’s really a thicket of statistics, producing words by splitting language into long sequences of vectors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
A footbridge carries you above a developing conifer thicket.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
It’s enclosed by two barriers—a white picket fence on the interior, and the carnivorous thicket on the exterior.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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