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He compared it to Wall Street’s genius creation, all those years ago, of those mortgage-backed securities that allowed them to leverage endless empty condos in the Las Vegas desert.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

For the first live test of an atomic weapon, an unusual encampment sprung up in the New Mexico desert.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Spanish and Italian agencies watching inbound migratory flows have to monitor the Sahara—a desert larger than the European Union—and the Mediterranean’s broad blue waterway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

County sheriff’s deputies converged on the scene and were visible amid a desert landscape and some ramshackle buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Their exposed layers had as many colors as a magistrate’s robes, from the yellow sand of the desert to the red dirt of the nearby Kashgar plain.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Forecasters warned of elevated fire weather conditions in interior valleys, mountains and deserts across L.A.,

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Important fossil sites do not always require travel to distant deserts or remote continents.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

On Sundays, however, iron curtains roll shut, turning city centers into eerie, echoey deserts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

Even if it was 30 miles from the village, I’d go on my own, through thick and thin, through the forest and deserts.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola

To test the concept, Srinivasan headed to a nearly deserted artificial island about 100 miles from the equator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

He deserted his unit earlier this month, Goni said, before relocating to Maiduguri, where he went into hiding with the help of an "associate".

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Returning to her home briefly on Sunday to get medicine, she said the streets were deserted and her house had been covered in ash.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

As rescue teams wind down efforts to salvage survivors from the rubble, and as residents leave the city -- due to dire economic prospects, trauma or both -- the streets appear more deserted than ever.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

My voice echoes through the office and into the deserted shop behind it.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

Despite losing his beloved horse, he told the BBC in 2011 - on the 30th anniversary of Shergar's biggest triumph - that he did not contemplate deserting his Irish breeding operation.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2025

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

He treats his troops abominably, whether he’s deserting them in Egypt, condemning them to a death march through a Russian winter or sending them into the hopeless onslaught of Waterloo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

They even build institutions for deserting elders out of sight.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas