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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According to the brand, the wind and sun there evaporate 90 percent of the fresh water in these marshes, leaving behind salt crystals at the bottom that are harvested using a skimming tool.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
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California is currently considering investing $500 million to widen a North Bay highway that’s sinking into a marsh surrounded because low-income commuters from Solano County use the route to get to jobs in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The genre emerged in the river system of the Mompos Depression, a vast wetland and in a small mountain range known as Montes de María.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some groups tackle long-term projects such as removing invasive species from an area of prairie in Texas, or a wetland in Taiwan.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Shepman's swamp chestnut oak stands at 95 feet in height with a 318-inch circumference and a canopy spread of 118 feet.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
3 Oct. 2025
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Bowhunting conditions were ideal on Friday afternoon, when 34-year-old Mitch Piepenburg headed toward a small food plot surrounded by a dense private swamp in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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