wasteland
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“This is not just a place of hunting and fishing, it’s not a wasteland, it’s not a forgotten place,” she said, while noting that many locals are survivors who have rebuilt after devastating hurricanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
It will be managed by the WHO which deals with all evacuation requests from a place the UN calls "a wasteland".
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2025
If they feel that way about Sam’s neighborhood, they must think I live in a wasteland.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
Bare-knuckle is the oldest form of boxing but became associated with unlicensed fights on wastelands after The Marquess of Queensberry rules were introduced in 1867, which insisted on gloves.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
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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