as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg
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Recent Examples of muskeg
The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg.
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Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022
Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
Any Alaskan who has just attempted to cross muskeg on foot will sympathize with the plight of the salvage crews, who had to remove a fighter plane partially buried in knee-deep mud and transport it to the island’s coast for pickup.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface.
—NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021
That muskeg excludes the rainforest Sitka spruce and hemlock that dominate most of this plain beneath high mountains.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021
Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
After a lightning strike sparked it on June 21, that fire had consumed spruce and muskeg over a swath the size of New York City.
—Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2019
Ruhle lives in an Anchorage neighborhood on Elmore Road and East 66th Avenue where the city butts up against the muskeg and forest of the 730-acre Bureau of Land Management Campbell Tract.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2019
Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022
Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
Any Alaskan who has just attempted to cross muskeg on foot will sympathize with the plight of the salvage crews, who had to remove a fighter plane partially buried in knee-deep mud and transport it to the island’s coast for pickup.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2022
The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface.
—NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021
That muskeg excludes the rainforest Sitka spruce and hemlock that dominate most of this plain beneath high mountains.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2021
Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
After a lightning strike sparked it on June 21, that fire had consumed spruce and muskeg over a swath the size of New York City.
—Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2019
Ruhle lives in an Anchorage neighborhood on Elmore Road and East 66th Avenue where the city butts up against the muskeg and forest of the 730-acre Bureau of Land Management Campbell Tract.
—Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskeg
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Raised railroad tracks and a Nike missile site upset the natural flow of the marshes and wetlands.Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
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The entire film takes place in a marsh where two women — a mother and a daughter-in-law — make their living by murdering samurai who wander into their swampy territory and selling the warriors' armor for cash.Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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And that comes as the loss of wetlands has accelerated, and critical protections have eased.Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
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These wetlands mimic conditions found in TB patients' lungs: acidic, low in nutrients, and oxygen-deprived.Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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The Daily Mail moreover published photos which purported to show DeGeneres’s property left in a swamp of flood water.Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
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On a trek through the forest, Nora’s guide signalled for the group to stop near the bank of a swamp.Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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