deserts
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As for the county of Los Angeles, about half of its 4,700-plus square miles are made up of the forests and oceans and deserts that encircle it.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
At 100, Attenborough no longer wanders the world's jungles and deserts.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
To better understand what happened on Mars, the team compared observations from the Curiosity rover with similar rock formations found in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates that formed under comparable conditions on Earth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026
Aylesbury MP Laura Kyrke-Smith, whose close friend took her own life after having a baby, called access a "postcode lottery" with some areas "complete deserts".
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
“Get into trouble. Get out of trouble again. Visit jungles and volcanoes and deserts and islands. And people. I want to meet an awful lot of people.”
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing deserts
Twelfth Night
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Antony and Cleopatra
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