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loam

[lohm] / loʊm /


NOUN
dirt
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NOUN
soil
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STRONGEST


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“A nice scent—really earthy. It smelled like loam soil.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The result, if we want to get really geeky, is a mix of clay, pure sand and sandy loam.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 9, 2023

I've got three ingredients in my potting compost: one-third compost, one-third rotten down leaf mold, and one-third loam that I've got from molehills in my field is perfect.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2022

From the loam of Jutta’s memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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