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deserts

NOUN

what is due one

Synonyms

STRONG

chastening chastisement comeuppance compensation deserving discipline disciplining due guerdon lumps meed merit payment penalty punishment recompense requital retribution return revenge reward right

WEAK

get hers get his talion what is coming to one what one is asking for

Antonyms

STRONG

award forgiveness pardon penalty reward sympathy

Example Sentences

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Even further to the west, Wu Yize's home province of Gansu - known for its deserts - is less privileged again.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

As for the county of Los Angeles, about half of its 4,700-plus square miles are made up of the forests and oceans and deserts that encircle it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

At 100, Attenborough no longer wanders the world's jungles and deserts.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

The others, with their hot deserts and big-sky plains, seem more obvious: Texas, Arizona and California.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Eventually, there were deserts and more forests and mountain ranges and even an ocean, all accessible by large networks of roads that unwound this way and that, like great spools of yarn.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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