steppe
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The region, made up of mountains surrounded by a desert steppe, receives just over 100 millimeters of annual rainfall, classifying it as an desert.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Finally, from 5,000 years ago, the Corded Ware people expanded out of the Russian steppe to inaugurate the European bronze age.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
After watching thousands of antelope flow over the Tibetan steppe, Mr. Schaller wrote, “for a brief time I was free again.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
"And we're involved in restoring tropical forest, dry deciduous forest, grassland, steppe - you name it - we're trying to help people put those plants back in place."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025
Khazaria, Babulya said, had been a great kingdom at its end, but its people had begun as steppe warriors.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
I was two days into the Gobi March, a brutal 155-mile ultramarathon through the steppes, sand dunes and rock valleys of Central Mongolia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
They then spent eight days on the road with a Chinese driver, travelling through mountains and lush steppes, which left Mr Sun in awe.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
In essence, how did their way of life change over time in a completely new environment after they left the steppes and abandoned their nomadic way of life?
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Ukraine’s open steppes, now crisscrossed by lines of trenches and pocked with bomb and artillery craters, gave rise to huge settlements in the early days of farming.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2023
The steppes, the flat grassland of southeastern Europe, crawled with rats and mice.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing steppe
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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