wilderness
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Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
The two had been 14 hours into the Inuvik Weekend Warrior Fat Bike Challenge - a three-day cycle across frozen rivers, remote highways and Canada's Arctic wilderness - when they were forced to withdraw.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
He’s understood in Ireland as a canny political operator who led his boring center-right party, Fianna Fáil, back to power after a decade in the wilderness.
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026
As an X-file from an earlier era, when fringe theories about UFOs, crop circles or the Loch Ness monster were quarantined as tabloid fodder, the lore around the wilderness footage seems quaint by today’s standards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Roosevelt quickly learned that it wasn’t the best time to be traveling through the Brazilian wilderness.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Vocabulary lists containing wilderness
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"Wilderness Letter"
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