desert

It comes after years of financial struggles for the 188-year-old retailer - known locally as DJs - as customers desert traditional shops for online shopping.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

A fertile area of Egypt on the edge of the desert, Fayum's arid climate helped preserve the delicate painted wood, textiles and papyrus on display in the exhibition.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

On the top of a mountain in the Chilean desert, an $800 million U.S.-taxpayer-funded telescope just opened its eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

As an archaeologist specializing in desert sites, this was a singular experience.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nathan’s eye drank in the scene of the massive desert.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Barbabella, 56 years old, served as an emergency medicine physician in the high deserts of Afghanistan, where Navy records show he came under fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

The findings come as ministers have pledged to tackle so-called "dental deserts", but dentists say the current deal is not viable.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Today, many of the best places to conduct this work are deserts or Arctic landscapes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

They became extinct in every habitat without exception, from deserts to cold rain forest and tropical rain forest.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Aberdonians had long deserted the High Street for a shopping centre, which opened in 2009 next to the railway station.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Destroyed buildings east of Deir al Balah, where farmland and residential areas appear largely deserted following the advance of the Yellow Line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The beach was deserted except for the boys playing on the dunes.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

In a mountainous village of post-war Italy, a taciturn Sicilian soldier hides out after deserting the army.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024

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 left unsaid the idea of his deserting his sisters while he escaped.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer