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swamp

[swomp] / swɒmp /




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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

But staff members have had to make do with indoor swamp coolers and fans, said Darlene Lopez, the manager at the animal hospital, in an interview with The Times.

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

She wasn’t splatted; she zoomed away on her bed of swamp fog.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

A river stretched along the far horizon, lined with a few reeds growing up from the swamps.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

The energy released by the blast may have also created small depressions in the ground that later filled with water, forming today's swamps and lakes.

From Science Daily Dec. 19, 2025

The road to Montgomery led the marchers through cotton fields and scraggly pine thickets, across twisting rivers and creeks and into dark, gloomy swamps where dead trees draped with gray Spanish moss hugged the roadside.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

Meanwhile, he said the abandoned lot next door remains unsecured and swamped with trash from transients who frequent the site.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 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

On Wednesday when AFP visited Liulan, floodwaters had receded, but the streets and houses were swamped with thick mud.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

The emergence of new fiscal concerns abroad has also revived perennial anxieties that the world is becoming swamped with bonds—thanks in large part to massive borrowing by the U.S. government.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The nearest neighbors had laughed at her, a small girl swamped in a coat running into the wind; so she’d flushed, and woken earlier the next day so nobody would see her.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

With more than a billion internet users, India is grappling with AI-generated disinformation swamping social media.

From Barron's Feb. 17, 2026

Critics have accused both companies of contributing to a deluge of so-called AI slop swamping the internet and blurring lines between real and fake.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 5, 2025

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

Poor Mohammed, he thought, all his brothers and sisters swamping him.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers




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