deserted
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Deserted sidewalks, boarded windows and crumbling buildings hug the downtown streets, save for a scant number of new businesses like Bennett's.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024
Deserted cars in the middle of raging waters.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024
Deserted by his party allies and a key coalition partner, his opposition pushed Khan out with 174 votes — two more than the required simple majority in the 342-seat National Assembly.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 11, 2022
In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, published in 1770.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2020
Deserted by Milo, they trudged homelessly through the reveling masses in futile search of a place to sleep.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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