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Recent Examples of loam
Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Plants thrive in fertile, slightly acidic loam or sand loam.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
Loam The word loam is used to describe soils with a good mixture of sand, silt, and clay, as well as organic matter.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
Then a month later, Hurricane Hanna hit South Texas and deep gashes appeared in the sandy loam under the wall.
—Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Carrots need a loose loam or sandy soil and plenty of moisture.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Plants thrive in fertile, slightly acidic loam or sand loam.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
Loam The word loam is used to describe soils with a good mixture of sand, silt, and clay, as well as organic matter.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
Then a month later, Hurricane Hanna hit South Texas and deep gashes appeared in the sandy loam under the wall.
—Outside Online, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loam
Noun
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Last month, archaeologists were able to start excavating and securing the site, which is located on a low beach embankment and protected only by a thin layer of topsoil.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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Green harvesting spares the air, preserves topsoil, and provides leafy residue to turn into byproducts and mulch, thereby creating new sources of revenue and jobs.—
Colin Walkes,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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Chef Andre Fowles, a three-time Food Network Chopped Champion, remains a stalwart force in the Miss Lily family but has exchanged the grit and bustle of the urban neighborhood for the sandy beaches and resort-umbrella-ed nook of the Negril, Jamaica location.—
Kristin L. Wolfe,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Nestled in nine hectares of lush, landscaped gardens overlooking a long, sandy beach and the shimmering South China Sea, The Westin Resort & Spa Cam Ranh is a haven of tranquility and wellbeing.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
28 June 2025
Noun
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Collectively, these leftovers become part of the humus of the soil, helping retain water and support soil-dwelling microbes, invertebrates and roots.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Burnt soil has obviously lost any mulch that had been present as well as the layer of decomposing organic material or humus just below it.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Now, his triumph signifies a continuation of some red-hot form as tennis transitions from clay to grass.—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park sparked a contentious debate about when, exactly, human cultures first developed in North America.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The crews used an excavator to lift the uninjured Dancer out of the mud, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
23 June 2025
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This skepticism led Holliday and his team to use new material — ancient mud — to confirm their original dating estimates.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Finally, the property has a deep-water dock and moorings, granite outcroppings, a gravel beach area, and pathways throughout the sprawling acreage.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Grass for gravel The historic White House Rose Garden is getting a new look.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The space features a rich palette of earthy tones such as sand, brick, and satin brass, complemented by natural materials such as oak, linen and raffia.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
20 June 2025
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The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Intriguing nose of smoldering earth that is balanced by perfumed notes of violets and warm raspberries with juicy cassis flavors with a firmer structure than 2016 yet there is a graceful quality to the texture with a fierce minerality underneath the delectable fruit.—
Cathrine Todd,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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After Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981 and Syria’s in 2007, Iran decided to spread its nuclear program out over multiple sites, with its crucial elements hidden so deep beneath the earth that not even Israel’s 5,000-pound bunker busters could reach them.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
18 June 2025
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“Loam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loam. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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