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There are more than 100 ways to restore peatland, including blocking drains and ditches and re-establishing bog vegetation.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

But Green, who oversaw that recovery project, said the bog bush cricket would be more difficult to rear because it can be cannibalistic and has a longer, two-year life cycle.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even as they profess admiration for one another’s work, Ruth, Jay and Leigh sink into a bog of miscommunication and antagonism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Anything would be better than trotting out another bog standard pro sports salute to the troops that year.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026

He felt that he was lying in a soft slimy bog, and springing up he set his foot on the corner of a cold hard flagstone.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He moves from the peat bogs of 18th-century Ireland to the dot-com bust with equal authority.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

On the silver screen, it dazzles like few contemporary science fiction films do, opting for color over the pallid gray verisimilitude that often bogs down its peers.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

Sphagnum moss can hold 20 times its weight in water and helps create peat bogs, where dead vegetation accumulates rather than decays, capturing carbon in the ground.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026

Scientists report that ancient bogs located throughout the Southern Hemisphere contain important clues to a significant change in Earth's climate thousands of years in the past.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025

Leaning against the door of the bogs, Pete Redmarley flicked a Minstrel into the air and caught it in his mouth.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

While Russia’s ground forces have been bogged down in Ukraine, its air, missile and naval assets remain largely intact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

“It’s just looking at every day as a new opportunity to learn and grow and not getting too bogged down when things don’t go exactly as you planned,” Brink told me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

But the $3.5 billion project has become bogged down in delays and contractural disputes, and remains in the testing phase.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

"Insurance companies love to use long documents, policies with wording that doesn't make any sense, that get you bogged down, so by the time you start reading it, you feel like you can't finish."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

“Here! Then just head east. No need to get bogged down in Bristol. M4 to junction 18, then the A46 to Bath. Bob's your uncle.”

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Late-arriving tax forms from partnerships and brokerage firms are also bogging down returns, O’Saben noted.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

Seventeen of his home runs came before the All-Star break, a sign of injuries bogging down his results at the plate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

"For that potential purchase to best compliment Netflix, the planned split of WBD would make its studio more attractive without bogging it down with TV networks that aren't as agile as Netflix," Benes told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025

With winter conditions bogging down military troops and leaving both sides looking ahead to spring offensives, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday called on Ukrainians from all regions to remain unified.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2023

Along a road running perpendicular to a river, the traffic thickened, bogging the ambulance down.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand