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marshland

[mahrsh-land] / ˈmɑrʃˌlænd /


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Nepali rescue teams battled difficult terrain, an unpredictable river and treacherous marshland on Monday, the sixth day in their search for survivors and victims of devastating floods.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

The militia member said the number of dead was unknown, as the operation on the vast expanse of water and marshland between Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad was still ongoing.

From Barron's ● May 10, 2026

Amid this gentle drama, Jewett depicts the marshland, where “the lines of the creeks made a broad tracery whichever way one looked.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Northern Sweden, where the training took place, is a web of rivers, lakes and marshland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

With the city ever-expanding, it would only be a matter of time before the marshland at its outskirts was filled in and built upon.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritising biodiversity over crop yield.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Canvey Island Foreshore, Essex - a family-favourite sandy beach, the island has only been populated since the 17th Century when the Dutch made the marshlands habitable.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

Focusing instead on strengthening levees in the Delta and restoring tidal marshlands, he said, would ensure that water is “delivered to the doorstep of your existing pumps reliably.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said the diversion helped the river’s flow of sediment and relieved oversaturated marshlands, MLive.com reported.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Our family had a part of those marshlands that was just ours and nobody else’s.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce


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