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
Here’s how: Find a tree, dead or alive, by itself in muskeg or on an open ridge.
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Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
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
Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
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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Systems to better protect oceans, coastal marshes and mangroves will also be on the agenda, as well as an emphasis on the indigenous people who live on and manage much of the world’s natural places.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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One of the hits of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, helmer Hadi’s poignant feature debut follows an impoverished girl living with her grandmother in the Mesopotamian marshes during the Saddam Hussein regime.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The drought has also set the stage for devastating wildfires in Brazil that have destroyed huge swaths of the Amazon as well as the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, and choked cities in thick smoke.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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After the water leaves the wetlands, it’s directed into the reservoir, then sent to TRWD’s municipal customers for final treatment.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Nov. 2025
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As officers continued the search, local Herb Yancy offered up his boat to help after Kraviec saw movement in the swamp.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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After a brief debate, the group settles on the swamp.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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