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badlands

[bad-landz] / ˈbædˌlændz /
NOUN
barren land
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Today, the Ledi Geraru area is a rugged landscape of faulted badlands.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

It’s also Robby’s final day of work before embarking on a three-month motorcycle road trip set to take him from Pittsburgh to the Canadian badlands.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 7-year-old cousin in the North Dakota badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2024

The town is surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — about 650,000 acres of badlands, sand, boulders, slot canyons and Washingtonia filifera palms, the only kind native to California.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023

Away from the lakeshore the land rises gently and then abruptly to form the desiccated, phantasmal badlands of Anza- Borrego.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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