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a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
they're out of paper in the bog again
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Shorten is passionate about these woodlands, moors, and peaty bogs in a way that serves to heighten your own experience of being there.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
One mile bogs, raging Rivers, waterfalls, huge waves, giant peaks, cliffs, on and on and on.
—Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2025
Visitors can walk through cranberry bogs or shuck oysters with third-generation oyster farmers.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025
Tour guide Richard Rhodes maneuvered his Carolina Skiff boat closer than I’d ever been to the species—close enough to take a selfie with a couple of gators sunning on nearby peat bogs.
—Sheeka Sanahori, Outside, 11 Nov. 2025
With these pressures in mind, Rhodes turned to a state program to retire and restore more than 30 acres of older bogs.
—Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Whatever the name, for centuries people have reported seeing these eerie, faint blue flames hovering over marshes, bogs and other wetlands.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
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They can be found in nutrient-poor environments such as bogs, swamps and acidic wetlands, where plants have had no choice but to evolve an alternative strategy for survival.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Shorten is passionate about these woodlands, moors, and peaty bogs in a way that serves to heighten your own experience of being there.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026
One mile bogs, raging Rivers, waterfalls, huge waves, giant peaks, cliffs, on and on and on.
—Outside Online, 17 Dec. 2025
Visitors can walk through cranberry bogs or shuck oysters with third-generation oyster farmers.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2025
Tour guide Richard Rhodes maneuvered his Carolina Skiff boat closer than I’d ever been to the species—close enough to take a selfie with a couple of gators sunning on nearby peat bogs.
—Sheeka Sanahori, Outside, 11 Nov. 2025
With these pressures in mind, Rhodes turned to a state program to retire and restore more than 30 acres of older bogs.
—Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Whatever the name, for centuries people have reported seeing these eerie, faint blue flames hovering over marshes, bogs and other wetlands.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Bogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogs. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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