barren
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But it remains that England could have done little more over the past two weeks as they bid to end their barren run at the top of the game.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Instead, he starts the film on a barren mountaintop, alone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
But the drafting boards of America’s engineers remained dishearteningly barren.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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