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swamp

[swomp] / swɒmp /




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They designed one to get wet, allowing for a swamp swim that nods to “Apocalypse Now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Kino’s hypocrisy stems from the same swamp as the original’s fictitious Dr. Gröss, whose lurid footage climaxed with a tsk-tsking screed against poverty, pollution and fascism as major contributors to the global death toll.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

It is bordered by vast swamp forests and largely undisturbed lowland rainforest growing atop deep peat deposits.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

David Tor, acting director of the town's hospital, introduced AFP to a mother who had been forced to deliver in nearby swamp land.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Ahead in the gloom, the terrain leveled out into a black swamp.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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