Thicket in a sentence as a noun

I'm not saying there isn't a path through the thicket, just that I'd love to see how they are saying they can get there.

Far as I know, the new one is still unpatched, and people are carefully going through the thicket of string parsing to try to fix it for good.

That's not to say that it's impossible to do: there's just a legal thicket to navigate & the legislators have teeth!

But it could also have been the fact that the patent mess is a thorny thicket that doesn't lend itself well to penetration by amateurs.

Easing the parts of the regulatory thicket without societal benefits.

You quickly arrive at a thicket of a million valid software patents covering everything you might ever want to program many times over.

Is that even possible, though, given the thicket of international treaties that every western country necessarily adheres to?

Like many, I'm attracted on an intellectual level to the idea of replacing the thicket of social services and redistribution programs with a single basic income.

Where I take offense is in seeing a demonstrably mindless response that veers wildly off-topic before landing in a thicket of unwarranted slurs getting upvoted to the degree that c2's did.

Software is different because the cost of materials consumed is effectively zero and the barrier to entry is at most $35 for a Raspberry Pi, allowing anyone to code their way into a patent thicket.

Well if a government-blessed cartel ran industry X, and there was basically only one product with no competition, which was replaced on a predetermined 10 year cycle after a series of long political committee meetings and they'd built a massive patent thicket to prevent upstart competition and control rivals business models how much disruptive innovation would you expect to see?

Thicket definitions

noun

a dense growth of bushes

See also: brush brushwood coppice copse