as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
grasses, sedges, and rushes are the plant species most commonly found in marshlands
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Recent Examples of marshland
Key Takeaways This Georgia barrier island is home to maritime forests, marshlands, wide beaches, and wild horses.
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Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
The protagonist is a nine-year-old girl named Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who lives with her grandmother (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in a mudhif, a house of twisted reeds, in Iraq’s southern marshlands.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
Consider the Wildland Trust Trails in Plymouth for flatter hikes through and past marshlands and other coastal sites.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
In Dee’s day the site was featureless marshland.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
The protagonist is a nine-year-old girl named Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who lives with her grandmother (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in a mudhif, a house of twisted reeds, in Iraq’s southern marshlands.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
Consider the Wildland Trust Trails in Plymouth for flatter hikes through and past marshlands and other coastal sites.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
In Dee’s day the site was featureless marshland.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marshland
Noun
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In mid-April, MMCD staff will be working on foot and in the air across the Twin Cities, looking for trouble spots in marshes and wetlands.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Cord grass ripples across these languorous northern marshes and, while ships lay wounded and stranded in the former Aral, all that remains of the old Parkgate are some very old photographs, showing frigates, sand, and some very fetching Victorian bathing attire.—
Rob Crossan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
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In mid-April, MMCD staff will be working on foot and in the air across the Twin Cities, looking for trouble spots in marshes and wetlands.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Obama’s stone exterior has academics and architecture critics in mind; it’s loftily designed to resemble four hands coming together and comes with such other un-Trump-like attributes as a wetland walk and sustainable garden.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2026
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All seagrasses descend from a group of flowering plants that includes the arums and water plantains, many of which grow in swamps or along streams.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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During a livestream of an airboat tour of a Florida swamp, Peters and a friend repeatedly fired handguns at an alligator.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Marshland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marshland. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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