wasteland

“This is not just a place of hunting and fishing, it’s not a wasteland, it’s not a forgotten place,” she said, while noting that many locals are survivors who have rebuilt after devastating hurricanes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

It wasn’t long ago that cycling had fallen into a data-obsessed wasteland in which teams rode conservatively and winners seldom took risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

However the bunker is still visible in a patch of wasteland.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Bare-knuckle is the oldest form of boxing but became associated with unlicensed fights on wastelands after The Marquess of Queensberry rules were introduced in 1867, which insisted on gloves.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

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

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