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swampy

[swom-pee] / ˈswɒm pi /
ADJECTIVE
boggy
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Southern California has had a particularly swampy summer, thanks to tropical storm remnants and unusually warm ocean temperatures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The landscape was rugged and swampy, filled with insects and dense vegetation that Osinski described as "deep, twisty, gnarly vegetation."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

A dense swampy mist seeped out of the bag, and her wrists were bound with several loops of twine.

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

“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




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