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desert

[dez-ert] / ˈdɛz ərt /






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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

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

Someone can live in a country with an enormous agricultural surplus and still have an empty refrigerator or live in a food desert.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The clay shards of the gunner’s jars littered the desert floor, along with the broken birdcages.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Not in Marinn or the Tribal deserts, not even beyond the Empire, where woad-coated Barbarians danced beneath starlight for days, as if possessed.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

But when he arrived, the business was deserted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 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 place seemed deserted, sleepy even, which wasn’t the usual environment a Butterfly liked to work in.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

Despite losing his beloved horse, he told the BBC in 2011 - on the 30th anniversary of Shergar's biggest triumph - that he did not contemplate deserting his Irish breeding operation.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 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

For the first time since my family and then the Washburns left, I feel angry at all of them for deserting us.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez




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