desert
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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 ● 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 ● Sep. 27, 2026
They’ve floated ideas like buying remote islands, stockpiling iodine pills, or moving to electromagnetically shielded bunkers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The cold desert offers suitable observing conditions on around 260 nights a year.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Nathan looked at the rising half-full moon; shadows were covering the desert, deepening and darkening the colors of the land and mesas.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
Julian joins the Air Force out of boredom and deserts for the same reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● Aug. 23, 2026
Today, many of the best places to conduct this work are deserts or Arctic landscapes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
For a while now she had been dreaming of deserts, of cactus and wide, red skies.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
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
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 deserted stoplight creaked as it swung, and that little lonesome moan of a sound broke open whatever was already cracked inside me.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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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 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
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 ● Jun. 19, 2024
Theo pressured him in so many ways during that August visit, pushing him into deserting Sien and the children.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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