wasteland

The play, which had its premiere off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, is a freewheeling love story, set in a skate park in the middle of an urban wasteland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

By the mid-1980s, the North American Soccer League had collapsed—and the U.S. was widely viewed as a soccer wasteland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Roco is “Hell Grind’s” protagonist, who journeys through a dystopian wasteland to save his fellow thief and love interest Lulu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Shujaiya today is a flat wasteland of rubble.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Weeds and thorns and nettles grew in that wasteland, but nothing that could be called a crop.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Aaron, meanwhile, plays Maximus, a member of the Brotherhood of Steel - one of the Fallout world's tribal communities that live outside in the wastelands.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

But because much of the city’s waterfront sits atop wetlands or wastelands that are somewhat unstable, an earthquake could damage a building’s foundation, making it “uninhabitable or unusable,” according to the hazard plan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

At each halt a frozen, unbroken silence lay outside the steel walls of our box, the silence of vast wastelands, of the heights.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin