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Recent Examples of bottomland
Bachman's warbler was first seen in Arkansas in May 1896, in the St. Francis River bottomland of Greene County.
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arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
Twisting through the bottomland was a sparkling stream that emptied into Indiana’s largest reservoir, Lake Monroe.
—Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
Congaree National Park South Carolina Congaree National Park in South Carolina is best known for its large collection of old-growth, bottomland hardwood trees.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
Most worked on farms — including harvesting potatoes on about 2,000 acres of Missouri River bottomland.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2025
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arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
Twisting through the bottomland was a sparkling stream that emptied into Indiana’s largest reservoir, Lake Monroe.
—Thomas Weddle, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
Congaree National Park South Carolina Congaree National Park in South Carolina is best known for its large collection of old-growth, bottomland hardwood trees.
—Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
Most worked on farms — including harvesting potatoes on about 2,000 acres of Missouri River bottomland.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottomland
Noun
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Fanaloka are a small, nocturnal species which are native to the lowland and rainforest areas of Madagascar.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Sep. 2025
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Dune and swale systems are globally rare; this topographic variation — upland in the dunes, lowland in the swales — combines with the region’s unique confluence of biomes — particularly oak savanna, prairie and wetlands — to pack a lot of biodiversity into the preserve’s 42 acres.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, or Roadless Rule, prohibits the new construction of roads and timber harvesting on nearly 45 million acres of national forests and grasslands.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their preferred habitats likely included open grasslands, forest edges and floodplains.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Hikers will pass by Texas persimmon trees and bluestem prairie grass, with armadillos and rabbits popping in and out of the wilderness.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Sep. 2025
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Dune and swale systems are globally rare; this topographic variation — upland in the dunes, lowland in the swales — combines with the region’s unique confluence of biomes — particularly oak savanna, prairie and wetlands — to pack a lot of biodiversity into the preserve’s 42 acres.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An insurgency was launched by Boko Haram in 2009 to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel (the semi-arid transitional zone between the Sahara and savannas), with several other terrorist groups also active in the region.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most travelers associate the Great Migration with East Africa’s Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in Tanzania and Kenya, where millions of blue wildebeest—African antelopes also called gnus—thunder across the savanna each year.—
Mazuba Kapambwe,
AFAR Media,
10 Sep. 2025
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Opt for Dream Pairs Loafers for a touch of hardware or Vionic Uptown Loafers for a sneaker-meets-flats construction.—
Amber Cardullo,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
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In this sequel to The Ice Road that trades Canadian ice flats for cliff-edge drop-offs and hairpin passes, Neeson’s grieving character Mike McCann heads to the Himalayas to scatter his brother’s ashes.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Operators such as Frontiers North Adventures will take you on a tundra buggy tour to glimpse the Arctic’s most majestic predators.—
Gaby Keiderling,
Robb Report,
4 Sep. 2025
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love was the talk of the tundra after a scintillating second half in 2023, and expectations were through the roof for the former first-round pick heading into 2024 as a result.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The property with its myriad gardens is also threaded with six miles of trails for walking or cycling that course beside the river and wander through meadows and forests.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In a remote Colorado meadow, flying insect populations have plummeted over 70% in just 20 years.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Bottomland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottomland. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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