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badlands

[bad-landz] / ˈbædˌlændz /
NOUN
barren land
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It’s also Robby’s final day of work before embarking on a three-month motorcycle road trip set to take him from Pittsburgh to the Canadian badlands.

From Salon Jan. 8, 2026

"The badlands in Wyoming where the finds were made is a unique 'mummy zone' that has more surprises in store from fossils collected over years of visits by teams of university undergrads."

From Science Daily Nov. 30, 2025

In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 7-year-old cousin in the North Dakota badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock.

From New York Times Jun. 4, 2024

Photographers rise early and take their four-wheel-drive vehicles up a four-mile dirt road to catch the sunrise badlands panorama from Font’s Point.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2023

I roll out of the badlands, past scrub cedar trees and a boarded-up church.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson




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