marshland
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of marshland
before 1150; Middle English mershland, Old English merscland. See marsh, land
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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
Northern Sweden, where the training took place, is a web of rivers, lakes and marshland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Proposals to breach the banks to create the new marshland have gone down very badly.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
As a two-time cancer survivor, she has tried to avoid the Stauffer site and Blair landfill, which is shrouded by marshland off the San Francisco Bay Trail.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
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
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
But the rare subspecies adapted to live in saltwater marshlands are considered threatened.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
Adel al-Batat, in his late 60s, has struggled to find work since he was initially displaced from marshlands when Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein drained vast parts in the 1990s to flush out rebels.
From Reuters ● Jun. 5, 2023
Yet we are allowing pesticides to enter them via the rivers and by direct spraying over bordering marshlands.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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