desiccated
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We drove past more empty lots, more abandoned groves, desiccated trees, signs announcing public hearings for land-use changes.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
Plus: Does anyone really like nibbling desiccated gumdrops?
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Oregon’s Lake Abert has repeatedly dried up, and biologists have found that when it’s desiccated, more phalaropes fly farther south to Mono Lake.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
Standing beside the hackberry shrubs with hundreds of empty desiccated cocoons still clinging to their branches and a carpet of butterfly corpses under her feet, La Llorona did not look anything like a malevolent specter.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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