deserted

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Dubai’s sprawling gold market is deserted, in part because buyers from abroad no longer come, and in part because of dramatic fluctuations in gold prices.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

By the end, "the village was practically deserted", she said, getting emotional as she described her tulip-filled home.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

As much of downtown L.A. continues to feel dark and deserted, local businesses want the city to steal San Francisco’s secret for firing up foot traffic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

On a dark winter evening, a woman waits for a train on a deserted platform.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God seems to have deserted us.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker