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
We were trapped in country as wild and rough as any in western Ontario, all hills and swamps, lakes and streams, muskeg, beaver ponds, and windfalls.
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Elwyn "bud" Myers,
Outdoor Life,
11 Mar. 2026
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.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
6 Nov. 2022
The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface.
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NBC News,
22 Nov. 2021
Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp.
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Theresa MacHemer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 Oct. 2020
Elwyn "bud" Myers,
Outdoor Life,
11 Mar. 2026
The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg.
—
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskeg
Noun
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Marshy has over eight miles of trails through marshes and coastal forest adjacent to Dundee and Saltpeter Creeks.
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Concerns of a serial killer first emerged in late 2010 after the disappearance of Shannan Gilbert, a 23-year-old woman who placed panicked 911 calls from the Oak Beach community before vanishing into the surrounding marsh.
Noun
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Instead, the idea is to lock in preservation protections for the 17,000 acres of wetlands surrounding the facility.
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The land where the Lincoln Memorial sits used to be mudflats and wetlands, but now its Reflecting Pool became home to a historically large algae bloom filled with jagged clumps of blue industrial paint.
Noun
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Air quality officials also recommend using an air purifier if available and avoiding the use of whole-house fans or swamp coolers that can draw outdoor air inside.
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For millions of years between 350 and 280 million years ago (about 30 million years before the first dinosaurs), these croc-like animals ruled the rivers, swamps, and lakes of the ancient world.
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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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