as in marshes
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
got a shoe stuck in the bog
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as in bathrooms
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
they're out of paper in the bog again
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Recent Examples of bogs
Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
On Earth, Vivianite is found in sediments, peat bogs and around decaying organic matter, while some forms of microbial life can produce greigite.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Real storms knock out whole sections of the park, turn sports fields into bogs, and reclog the drains so that conditions get ever more dire.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Most such bogs have been drained for cropland, and several European governments are wondering whether to revive them, Politico reported.
—Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Croatan spans 160,000 acres and includes pine forests, saltwater estuaries, bogs, and raised swamps.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Goldie loved the even more subtle cryptotephra, the sly tephra fallout from many thousands of years ago, doubly elusive when hidden under layers of sediment, as in the bogs, lake beds, or ponds that filled extinct volcanic craters.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
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On Earth, vivianite is frequently found in peat bogs and around decaying organic matter—another item on the microbes’ menu.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
On Earth, Vivianite is found in sediments, peat bogs and around decaying organic matter, while some forms of microbial life can produce greigite.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Real storms knock out whole sections of the park, turn sports fields into bogs, and reclog the drains so that conditions get ever more dire.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
Most such bogs have been drained for cropland, and several European governments are wondering whether to revive them, Politico reported.
—Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Croatan spans 160,000 acres and includes pine forests, saltwater estuaries, bogs, and raised swamps.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Goldie loved the even more subtle cryptotephra, the sly tephra fallout from many thousands of years ago, doubly elusive when hidden under layers of sediment, as in the bogs, lake beds, or ponds that filled extinct volcanic craters.
—Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
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“Bogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogs. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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