wasteland
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Next, the quants have to figure out the discounted present value of the world as a postapocalyptic wasteland in 2030.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The play, which had its premiere off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, is a freewheeling love story, set in a skate park in the middle of an urban wasteland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Roco is “Hell Grind’s” protagonist, who journeys through a dystopian wasteland to save his fellow thief and love interest Lulu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
In both public perception and official policy, savannas in India and elsewhere have often been labeled "wastelands."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026
Multiple generations of Americans have been socialized to believe that a mecca of cheap, dirty pleasures awaits in the wastelands of southern Nevada.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
People like Tommy know such wastelands hold opportunity.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025
The park has been in the works since 2010, when the Colombian government recognized the llanos — long viewed by the public as grassy wastelands — to be a conservation priority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Their environments ran the gamut, from sword-and-sorcery settings to cyberpunk-themed planetwide cities to irradiated postapocalyptic zombie-infested wastelands.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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