as in bathroom
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
they're out of paper in the bog again
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Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
At the Pian del Re peat bog in Piedmont, only 150 cars are allowed to park in the closest parking area to discourage visitors.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Feed water lilies and bog plantings monthly. House and foliage plants
76.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
The accident remains under investigation after response teams worked together for a week to recover the vehicle from a peat bog, CBS reported.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 7 June 2025
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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
At the Pian del Re peat bog in Piedmont, only 150 cars are allowed to park in the closest parking area to discourage visitors.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Feed water lilies and bog plantings monthly. House and foliage plants
76.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2025
The accident remains under investigation after response teams worked together for a week to recover the vehicle from a peat bog, CBS reported.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 7 June 2025
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“Bog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bog. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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