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Recent Examples of swale
Although many swales and basins remain verdant with Bermuda grass, which is easier to maintain, there’s a growing push to use native vegetation for runoff control.
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Laura Mallonee, Wired News, 12 Apr. 2025
Zalatoris could barely find his way out, advancing the ball just 59 feet into another swale.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
The lip of the canyon gave way to a gently dropping swale of lush grass, aspens, and large oak trees.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
Climate models predict between 76 to 95 percent of swales could be lost to flooding by 2100, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and storm surges from intensifying weather could also put the firefly’s habitat underwater.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
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Laura Mallonee, Wired News, 12 Apr. 2025
Zalatoris could barely find his way out, advancing the ball just 59 feet into another swale.
—Brody Miller, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
The lip of the canyon gave way to a gently dropping swale of lush grass, aspens, and large oak trees.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
Climate models predict between 76 to 95 percent of swales could be lost to flooding by 2100, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and storm surges from intensifying weather could also put the firefly’s habitat underwater.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swale
Noun
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Fifteen minutes outside of downtown Boulder, Colorado, sandwiched between a golf course and a marsh, is Congregation Bonai Shalom.—
Cindy Von Quednow,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Before its use as a dump, the land beneath the depot was a marsh along the now-subterranean Givan Creek, which empties into nearby Eastchester Bay.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Start the morning kayaking in the Morro Bay Estuary, an 800-acre wetland with salt marshes and mudflats.—
Emese Maczko,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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The turtles' parents are native to the Iowa wetlands.—
Rachel Flynn,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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Hauntingly beautiful ghost orchids cling to pond apple trees growing right out of cypress sloughs.—
Elise Bennett,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2025
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First Aid Beauty's KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub sloughs away roughness and dead skin buildup caused by KP, and smells like strawberries.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
17 May 2025
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There’s a place where both of those come together as one; where green fairways mosey up against beautiful cranberry bogs; where farmers do their thing for the good of that crop right next to golfers focusing on working toward their best round.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
5 June 2025
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The varied landscapes of the park, which includes those dramatic dunes, prairies, bogs, and marshes, is home to at least 350 different species of birds.—
Opheli Garcia Lawler,
Travel + Leisure,
20 May 2025
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American alligators in Oklahoma live primarily in isolated areas and marshlands in the state’s southeastern corner.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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Authorities have not released information about the cause of the blowout or the total volume of oil released into the Louisiana Gulf Coast's marshlands.—
Dan Ruetenik,
CBS News,
5 May 2025
Noun
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But the effect of duration swamps the measurement: that’s why the bTRIMP graph above shows the 60-minute easy run (LIT) as the workout with the biggest training load.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
5 June 2025
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The Atchafalaya River Basin is the country’s largest river swamp.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
Noun
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Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
31 Dec. 2024
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Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the amphibious flora of fens and bogs.—
Ferris Jabr,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2024
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The job of a pretreatment stain remover product is to break down the molecules while in the wash, so the job gets done the first time around.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 June 2025
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Throughout, he’s bathed in washes of mostly white light and surrounded by lasers as the music builds to a place of pure pummeling.—
Katie Bain,
Billboard,
4 June 2025
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“Swale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swale. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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