wasteland
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The helicopter he was on, hired by Rasuwagadhi, was unable to land at the location of the project, which was a muddy wasteland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
It was a wasteland of corporate buzzwords, 4 a.m. wake-up routines and stories about overcoming workplace adversity with a little something called grit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
It will be managed by the WHO which deals with all evacuation requests from a place the UN calls "a wasteland".
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
If they feel that way about Sam’s neighborhood, they must think I live in a wasteland.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
Bare-knuckle is the oldest form of boxing but became associated with unlicensed fights on wastelands after The Marquess of Queensberry rules were introduced in 1867, which insisted on gloves.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
In both public perception and official policy, savannas in India and elsewhere have often been labeled "wastelands."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
Multiple generations of Americans have been socialized to believe that a mecca of cheap, dirty pleasures awaits in the wastelands of southern Nevada.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
As for the purported urban/rural divide, in which big cities are wastelands of violence and rural areas are utopias?
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2023
Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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