swamp
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The remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Others, including businesses within the same strip mall, donated portable swamp coolers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"In the afternoon it becomes really intolerable, because this is reclaimed swamp," he said, nodding to Washington's geography.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Here’s what can’t be denied: The Sunshine State’s reputation as the nation’s dangle, Heaven’s lobby, and a land of swamp creatures and crocodile wrestlers and Disneyworld and Mar-A-Lago and, somehow, Miami.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
My brother thought it was something to be ashamed of—if he’s here, watching out on the swamp, he’s probably embarrassed to see me even speaking to Sandy right now.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Philip is a harvester of periwinkles, but says the sea snails - a delicacy in the Niger Delta - are hard to come by these days in the mangroves and swamps.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
If you’re new to her work, here is where to start with Groff’s sprawling canon, which spans from steamy Florida swamps to medieval abbeys with a gift for the unexpected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Although its peatlands and swamps cover just 0.3 percent of the planet's land surface, they store about one third of all carbon held in tropical peatlands worldwide.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
The drone and die sea of green trees that lay before the plane’s nose and flowed to the horizon, spread with lakes, swamps, and wandering streams and rivers.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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I followed relevant content, including several of the Haraga profiles, and soon my feed was swamped with videos and content encouraging travel to Ceuta.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Recruiters and HR offices are swamped with applications that people churn out with job-search platforms and AI agents.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The losses swamped the pickup in yields, leading to total-return losses.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
As a result, the city has been swamped with a mounting backlog of streetlight repairs — more than 33,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
But there were days when the wind ripped up the surface of Lake Washington so badly that nobody could row on it without being swamped.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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He began gaining renown as a lawyer in an era when asbestos cases were swamping the U.S. courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
With more than a billion internet users, India is grappling with AI-generated disinformation swamping social media.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Pictures show the deep flood waters swamping bridges and fast moving water swirling down roads.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025
The worst flu season in years is swamping California, prompting a renewed surge in hospitalizations as officials warn the disease could continue circulating at high levels for weeks to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
She bent over the side to try to wash the smell off her hands, nearly swamping the boat.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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