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. 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
  • The Instagram post showed the group laughing and posing while shooting on a marsh outside Charleston.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Spend some time adventuring on the island’s creeks and marshes via a kayak tour.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Now the wetlands, woods, wildflower meadows and river views, which are managed and protected by River Fields conservancy, are open for the public to enjoy from dawn to dusk.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The team has tested the approach in rice paddies and wetlands, environments naturally rich in iron and organic matter.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The land was also covered by swamps and ponds, where animals lived, including deer, ducks and hogs.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • My candidacy is a symbol of the end of the weak-kneed, feckless Republican leadership of Mitch McConnell, and the spineless swamp jellyfish that are in the United States Senate representing the Republicans.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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