as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
the conservation board has not always been rigorous in protecting the wetlands from development
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Recent Examples of wetland
And much more land is subject to onerous wetlands controls at the state level.
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James Burling, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
Most of the mute swans are in the Suisun Marsh, a sprawling complex of public wetlands, agricultural lands and private duck-hunting clubs on the outskirts of the Bay Area near Fairfield.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
That's true even in bucolic settings like Taylor County, where small farms blend with the forest and wetlands.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Celebrating 15 years in 2025, the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens is a bedrock of the community, welcoming all to enjoy its shaded walkways, flowering native gardens, and acres of wetlands and mangrove forests.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
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James Burling, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2025
Most of the mute swans are in the Suisun Marsh, a sprawling complex of public wetlands, agricultural lands and private duck-hunting clubs on the outskirts of the Bay Area near Fairfield.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
That's true even in bucolic settings like Taylor County, where small farms blend with the forest and wetlands.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Celebrating 15 years in 2025, the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens is a bedrock of the community, welcoming all to enjoy its shaded walkways, flowering native gardens, and acres of wetlands and mangrove forests.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wetland
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Enhancing a marsh requires its own kind of balance: Reestablishing Spartina grasses, Marturano told me, can mean using bulldozers outfitted with snowshoe-like tracks to bring the marsh down to a particular elevation.—
Kyra Morris,
The Atlantic,
22 Aug. 2025
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Regular burns are actually essential to the Everglades, clearing grasses to help water flow through the marshes, killing exotic plants and fertilizing new growth with ash.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
21 Aug. 2025
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Croatan spans 160,000 acres and includes pine forests, saltwater estuaries, bogs, and raised swamps.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
22 Aug. 2025
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The general assumption was instead that the swamp had been devoured to its skeletal minimum and that the rats had migrated farther north, where there was better eating to be had.—
Nathaniel Rich,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Wetland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wetland. Accessed 2 Sep. 2025.
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