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barren

[bar-uhn] / ˈbær ən /




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Keith LeChien, chief technology officer of three-year-old startup Pacific Fusion, said it wouldn’t be barren for long.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Inside the barren transit tent, which provides little escape from scorching 41C heat, Zarina sits alongside an anxious huddle of women and their children.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

"It used to be a barren mountain, but since the area has developed, transportation has become more convenient, trade has picked up, business opportunities have emerged," local shopkeeper Shu Peihua said.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

A series of severe heatwaves and prolonged droughts have turned many European riverbeds into barren sandscapes this summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

The visual image congealed; he saw at once a famous landscape, the old, brown, barren ascent, with tufts of dried-out bonelike weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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