desert
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“Mojave National Preserve belongs to the American people, not an international mining company,” Chance Wilcox, the organization’s California desert program manager, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
SIRTE, Libya—The twin-turboprop plane carved a line down through the sky and touched down at a desert airstrip here near Libya’s Mediterranean coast.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
By Jan. 26, Bovino had been demoted and sent back to his home station in the California desert.
From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026
Her focus is the West Valley, which has emerged as a premier destination for AI data center development—and where she has become the go-to developer and global capital partners staking their claim in the desert.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
“Do you mean for us to die?” asked the king, staring out around him at the vast stretches of unforgiving desert.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing desert
Physical Geography - Introductory
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The American Civil War
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