wasteland
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However the bunker is still visible in a patch of wasteland.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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
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 was no longer the fire-stricken wasteland he saw in the videos, but in fact quite green.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
She leans a little closer, but her desk is like a wasteland between us.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
The park has been in the works since 2010, when the Colombian government recognized the llanos — long viewed by the public as grassy wastelands — to be a conservation priority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
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
Since that day, I’ve left my footprints in many lands: the frozen wastelands of the Arctic, the bush country of Old Mexico, and the steaming jungles of Yucatán.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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