as in marsh
spongy land saturated or partially covered with water
local farmers can make extra money by digging peat out of the nearby muskeg
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Recent Examples of muskeg
Here’s how: Find a tree, dead or alive, by itself in muskeg or on an open ridge.
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Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
The lakes are two skinny networks of water, one above the other, separated by two kilometres of muskeg.
—Hazlitt, 20 Dec. 2022
Some of those roads, homes, and business districts crossed what had once been impassable, swampy muskeg.
—David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Nov. 2022
The terrain gives way to a mixture of forest, muskeg and drylands, where the sandy soil rises to the surface.
—NBC News, 22 Nov. 2021
Much of the undeveloped land in Tongass is rock, ice or muskeg, a type of cold-climate swamp.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muskeg
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Those windmills stood on mud and marshes amid samphire and pink thrift flowers, the only warm glow around our house.—
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From massive tarpons in the Gulf to record-breaking redfish hiding in the marsh, the island boasts access to more than 280 species of fish and year-round angling.—
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The drought has also set the stage for devastating wildfires in Brazil that have destroyed huge swaths of the Amazon as well as the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, and choked cities in thick smoke.—
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After the water leaves the wetlands, it’s directed into the reservoir, then sent to TRWD’s municipal customers for final treatment.—
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More is at stake than preserving the singular beauty of the sawgrass prairies of Everglades National Park or cypress swamps of the Big Cypress National Preserve.—
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Trump and his supporters have worn his legal attacks as a badge of honor, taking them as proof that an insidious swamp has conspired against him.—
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“Muskeg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muskeg. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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