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Celmins, 88, is known for her meticulous re-creations of natural imagery, like night skies, desert sands and ocean waves — and stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

"The desert is beautiful and picturesque. It is also amazing that it's barely a 30-minute drive from Mogadishu," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Last month, a few executives based in Riyadh even drove themselves to Damascus—an 18-hour drive through barren desert and across two international borders—rather than risk flying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The world's first US-born pontiff, who holds Peruvian citizenship, will celebrate mass on a desert plain near the Pacific Ocean, before visiting Cusco, the former Inca capital, and Pucallpa, a city in the Amazon rainforest.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

We had just gained some merchandise and survived the haunted desert.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The administration wants to erect barriers and roads in a remote, largely undeveloped area that includes deserts, canyons, part of the Rio Grande River and Big Bend National Park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

This diversity is driven by diverse habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Wind advisories across inland deserts were set to expire early Monday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Last year, Northwestern University identified over 212 counties out of some 3,000 in the United States as "news deserts," having no locally-based news sources such as newspapers and public radio.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

It was even grown in deserts and other areas that were very dry.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The checkouts cooled but Smith won a succession of scrappy legs to seal victory as Price's game deserted him.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

But when he arrived, the business was deserted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

“The Dog Stars” takes place in a wrecked, deserted 2035, after a viral plague has killed almost everybody on Earth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Now I just need a reason for my hero to find a large sack on a deserted tropical island!

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

In recent years, the number of Kiwis deserting the nation has reached record levels, a large chunk of them moving "across the ditch" to Australia.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

He treats his troops abominably, whether he’s deserting them in Egypt, condemning them to a death march through a Russian winter or sending them into the hopeless onslaught of Waterloo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

He was not to think that he was deserting her: it was quite the contrary.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White