swampy
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So let’s dive, Scrooge McDuck–style, into the swampy details.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
Mbappé went on his scoring binge first, in the swampy Meadowlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The sun is setting over Ilubirin, a half-finished housing estate being constructed on sand-filled land reclaimed from the swampy Lagos lagoon.
From Barron's ● Dec. 22, 2025
The backing band adds layers of skronk and sweat to the chugging machine, eschewing the neat-as-a-pin style of their U.K. counterparts for something suitably swampy, a bit less on-the-level.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2025
You always knew the menagerie was nearby because the smell turned from swampy to wood shavings, wet fur, and assorted musty scents.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
“Phytophthora thrives on these humid, moist, kind of swampier sites. Unfortunately, that is the kind of problem that's kind of creeping up into our region as things start to warm up.”
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
But the opposite is true, so he depends on a foil who flatters him, a fork in the road that he can portray as rockier and swampier.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2017
In the early 1970s, Dr. Brisbin was employed checking out the wildlife on the periphery of the plant and often came upon these wild dogs in the swampier parts of his domain.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2013
As the forest became wetter and swampier, she had to avoid stepping into still, black pools that looked like shadows.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Kyushu would have seemed a paradise to Korean rice farmers, because it is warmer and swampier than Korea and hence a better place to grow rice.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In the swampiest of swamps, “strategic communications” obviously pays.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020
This war had led us from the comparative civilisation of German plantations to the wildest, swampiest region of Equatorial Africa.
From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey
