barren
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The lush green grass is entirely gone, replaced by a dusty, barren expanse of dirt.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
Lieber chafed at the intrusion and Chakrabarti’s plan to shift Penn’s grand entrance from bustling Seventh Avenue to the comparably barren Eighth Avenue.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, tells the story of two friends who gather next to a barren tree, hoping to meet a man who never actually arrives.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
Next weekend this place is gonna be barren.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
Up here the country was quite barren and the hills were rocky and hard-baked clay furrowed by the rain.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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