wilderness
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The stock spent years in the wilderness afterward, falling to as low as $1.50 in July 2022 from a 2017 closing high of $99.61.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Sometimes hungry villagers walk for more than three hours into the wilderness before locating the trees.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
Nearly 60 years ago, a cowboy rode on horseback into the Northern California wilderness with a 16mm camera.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
But then, a little frustration at a cowardly lack of social etiquette is better than, say, a date abandoning you in the middle of a wilderness hike, i.e., the alpine divorce.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
In their eyes the land was an unoccupied, pristine wilderness.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing wilderness
List 7
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"Wilderness Letter"
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