desert
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Along a desolate stretch of California desert highway, next to a ramshackle home, law enforcement officials on Wednesday dug for a second day in a search for bodies.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 30, 2026
Surrounded by desert and a mountain range, no other RTX location is hiring more, with around 670 positions in Tucson advertised on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 28, 2026
But the region will be on the storm’s outer edge as it passes through Baja California and then mainland Mexico and into the desert southwest.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 2026
The cold desert offers suitable observing conditions on around 260 nights a year.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
And beyond the desert, after a few days’ ride, was the garden capital of Turfan.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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 β Sep. 28, 2026
Julian joins the Air Force out of boredom and deserts for the same reason.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 28, 2026
The findings come as ministers have pledged to tackle so-called "dental deserts", but dentists say the current deal is not viable.
From BBC β Aug. 23, 2026
Today, many of the best places to conduct this work are deserts or Arctic landscapes.
From Science Daily β Aug. 17, 2026
Beyond the mountains, green hills and brown deserts and blue lakes came together in a mosaic of beauty.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
The checkouts cooled but Smith won a succession of scrappy legs to seal victory as Price's game deserted him.
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 1, 2026
But when he arrived, the business was deserted.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 29, 2026
At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.
From Barron's β Aug. 18, 2026
He made his way back to his farm along deserted roads.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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 β 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 β Dec. 5, 2024
But that’s the way it’s been as my third and final child draws ever nearer to deserting the nest, as the role of “mother” becomes less CEO and more consultant emeritus.
From Los Angeles Times β Jun. 19, 2024
“And the moms that we help — I can’t imagine deserting any of them.”
From Seattle Times β Sep. 1, 2023
To leave West Virginia, even to leave Welch, would have been unthinkably disloyal, like deserting your family.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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