desert

He compared it to Wall Street’s genius creation, all those years ago, of those mortgage-backed securities that allowed them to leverage endless empty condos in the Las Vegas desert.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

The U.A.E. has managed to steer much of its oil around the blockage in Hormuz by piping it across the desert to its eastern coast on the Gulf of Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

County sheriff’s deputies converged on the scene and were visible amid a desert landscape and some ramshackle buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan’s eastern desert and several other bases in the country host U.S. fighters, air defense batteries and other military units used against Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The desert had energy and electricity in the air.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Important fossil sites do not always require travel to distant deserts or remote continents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The weather service is predicting elevated to briefly critical fire weather conditions in the interior valleys, mountains and deserts through Saturday due to hot, dry and breezy conditions, including long periods of single-digit humidity levels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

On Sundays, iron curtains roll shut, turning city centers into eerie, echoey deserts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The move seems especially poised to hit California, the most biodiverse state in the country, where more than 6,700 species are spread across mountains, forests, deserts and oceans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Also we have to worry about deserts, and erosion.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The $100-billion dollar complex's quiet streets and deserted beaches have earned it a reputation as a "ghost city"

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

To test the concept, Srinivasan headed to a nearly deserted artificial island about 100 miles from the equator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The tourist port in the Romanian town of Corabia, on the banks of the Danube river, is deserted except for a few pleasure boats stranded in the algae.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Returning to her home briefly on Sunday to get medicine, she said the streets were deserted and her house had been covered in ash.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Soldiers deserted by the tens of thousands, voting for peace with their feet as they headed for home.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

It could have meant one of the last major studios - behind titles last year such as Ryan Coogler's Sinners, The Minecraft Movie and One Battle After Another - deserting the cinema.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 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 rate is half the national level for Californians under 35, and they are precisely the group that is deserting the West Coast for “cost of living” reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025

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

If the Augur isn't trying to keep me from deserting, then what does he want?

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir