peat
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"The fire is burning in the peat, so it is actually underground, sometimes quite deep," explained area fire chief David Covens on a trip into the fire zone.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
On-site operations have been complicated by the fens' terrain -- a patchwork of heath, peat bogs and raised wooden boardwalks.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
This moss, which can hold 20 times its own weight in water, is "really good at building peat".
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
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
Hester was no beauty; she was about as plain and scrawny as a hare could be; but her eyes were marvelously colored, gold-hazel flecked with rays of deepest peat brown and forest green.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing peat
Western Europe - Introductory
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Western Europe - Middle School and High School
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