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In the swamplands of Florida there sits a forcefield that formed after a meteor hit the area.
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Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
Temperatures will dip below freezing in parts of all Lower 48 states, including Florida’s subtropical regions, Louisiana’s swamplands and the mountains of California.
—Brandi D. Addison, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2025
Some of the swampland bordering the streams was spongy, miry, or covered with shallow water; much was flat lowland, normally dry except in time of flood.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
The feisty Pembroke Pines grandmother emerged as a hero a year ago today when firefighter-paramedics rescued her three days after her Toyota Tercel plummeted off Interstate 595 into a sweltering bed of swampland brush.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
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Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
Temperatures will dip below freezing in parts of all Lower 48 states, including Florida’s subtropical regions, Louisiana’s swamplands and the mountains of California.
—Brandi D. Addison, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Nov. 2025
Some of the swampland bordering the streams was spongy, miry, or covered with shallow water; much was flat lowland, normally dry except in time of flood.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
The feisty Pembroke Pines grandmother emerged as a hero a year ago today when firefighter-paramedics rescued her three days after her Toyota Tercel plummeted off Interstate 595 into a sweltering bed of swampland brush.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swampland
Noun
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Upon entering the Visitor's Center, guests are greeted by life-size models of North Atlantic right whales, dolphins, and manta rays, along with dioramas depicting marshes, sand dunes, and coastal habitats.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
7 Mar. 2026
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The island is still home to oaks covered in Spanish moss, unpaved roads, undeveloped beaches and marshes.—
Anna Grace Lee,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The wetlands had been sold decades earlier as useless swamp, mostly to unsuspecting northerners with little regard for the powerful benefits that wetlands provide humans.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
10 Mar. 2026
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Who is the woman found in the swamp?—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But by driving declines in crayfish, which underpin the wetland food web, swamp eels have the potential to disrupt the entire system.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
12 Mar. 2026
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During Ocean Week, each grade level explores a different marine habitat, building ocean literacy across ponds, the seashore, sandy beaches, wetlands, kelp forest and the open ocean.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Swampland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swampland. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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