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• s  (of soil) soft and watery
  swampy bayous

• In the late 19th century, as the Chinese empire waned, foreigners carved up Shanghai, turning the swampy land into valuable concessions controlled by the French, British, Americans .
• In the jungle-like Haven, the swampy water ripples when touched, and surreal-looking animals dart across the screen.
• Florida was once a swampy rural backwater, the poorest and emptiest state in the South.

• boggy
• marshy
• miry
• mucky
• muddy
• quaggy
• sloppy
• sloughy
• soggy
• squashy
• waterlogged

News & Articles

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• Andrea ashore in Florida's Big Bend
  Tropical Storm Andrea came ashore in the swampy, sparsely populated Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 65 mph with it. The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season made landfall about 5:40 ...
  June 6, 2013 - WCVB Boston
• Andrea crawling ashore in Florida's Big Bend
  Tropical Storm Andrea began to crawl ashore in the swampy, sparsely populated Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 65 mph with it. At 5 p.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported landfall was imminent. In Taylor County, Emergency Management Director Dustin Hinkel said landfall was expected about 190 miles north of Tampa, between the ...
  June 6, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio
• Andrea is expected to unleash 3 to 6 inches of rain over much of Florida
  Tropical Storm Andrea came ashore in the swampy, sparsely populated Big Bend region of Florida on Thursday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and winds up to 65 mph with it.
  June 6, 2013 - WJXT Jacksonville

Quotes

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton in International Herald Tribune
  During a campaign stop at a senior citizens center in Watervliet, just outside Albany, Clinton said: "It's unfortunate that, when you don't have anything positive to say about the issues, that we can get off in some pretty swampy territory."
• David Cameron in Newbury Weekly News Group
  Towards the end of his speech, Mr Cameron said: "Now, my mother the magistrate, she sat on the bench in Newbury." "Because of the bypass protestors, she had to cope with the likes of Swampy, because of the Greenham Common protest she had to...
• Brad May in Sault Star
  We got soaked by the rain and sometimes swampy conditions, were worried the fire might never light, and got lost for a while heading out of the bush,said Toronto Maple Leaf Brad May. "It was extremely demanding, and I respect Les...