desert

Classical musicians are not native species of massive pop festivals in the desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Spanish and Italian agencies watching inbound migratory flows have to monitor the Sahara—a desert larger than the European Union—and the Mediterranean’s broad blue waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

It says a prickly desert plant called hesperaloe produces fiber that can make stronger and softer paper products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The storms could bring dry lightning to the Sierra Nevada, Bay Area and eastern deserts, along with gusty winds and above-normal temperatures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 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

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

It simply descends as you travel west from Bordeaux along empty roads and through deserted villages.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

He deserted his unit earlier this month, Goni said, before relocating to Maiduguri, where he went into hiding with the help of an "associate".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

As rescue teams wind down efforts to salvage survivors from the rubble, and as residents leave the city -- due to dire economic prospects, trauma or both -- the streets appear more deserted than ever.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

As soon as Masvita left, Nhamo stalked off to the deserted village.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

“And the moms that we help — I can’t imagine deserting any of them.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

He had gone on by himself, deserting us, deserting me.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin