wilderness
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In court papers, they described the area as a rugged and majestic wilderness with unique historical and cultural resources that would be destroyed by the border wall construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Published in Biological Conservation, the findings challenge a longstanding assumption about what Europe's wilderness looked like before widespread human intervention.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
A school staple gets revisited: Millions of students had to read the coming-of-age wilderness survival novel Hatchet in English class.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
The Angels had just reached the promised land, after more than four decades of wandering through baseball’s wilderness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
“Another reason I thought you were a wilderness spirit.”
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
He came out of Africa and had spent years in the wildernesses of the East and the West.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
AppLovin has an ad platform that facilitates ads surrounding mobile apps, especially games, one of the last untamed wildernesses of digital advertising.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
The famous walking route from the central belt to the Highlands takes walkers along the shores of Loch Lomond and across Rannoch Moor - one of the last wildernesses in Europe.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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