wasteland

It wasn’t long ago that cycling had fallen into a data-obsessed wasteland in which teams rode conservatively and winners seldom took risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Relief surged through him; he hadn’t realized how much he had feared that they would never leave that frozen wasteland behind.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Millions of visitors are going to experience American cities that they’ve been told are unlivable wastelands.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 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

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

Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr