as in bathroom
a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste
they're out of paper in the bog again
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Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
This mosquito tends to live in hardwood bogs and feeds on birds like robins, herons, and wrens, spreading the virus among them.
—Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2024
Possibly the earliest existing scrap of tartan known today is a 16th-century piece found in a bog in Glen Affric, Scotland, which the V&A Dundee studied before the exhibition.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
The English press praised the book, but a few Irish writers objected to the ways the bog poems seemed to naturalize the Troubles, attributing the conflict to an ancient curse rather than to real and ongoing political oppression.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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They’re stubbornly entrenched in their Appalachian bog, until an unsettling secret comes to light.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2024
This mosquito tends to live in hardwood bogs and feeds on birds like robins, herons, and wrens, spreading the virus among them.
—Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2024
Possibly the earliest existing scrap of tartan known today is a 16th-century piece found in a bog in Glen Affric, Scotland, which the V&A Dundee studied before the exhibition.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
The English press praised the book, but a few Irish writers objected to the ways the bog poems seemed to naturalize the Troubles, attributing the conflict to an ancient curse rather than to real and ongoing political oppression.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
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“Bog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bog. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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