barren
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Understanding how this wetter world transformed into the barren landscape we see now remains a major question in planetary science.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
The weather lifted and the cold and they came at last into the broad lowland river valley, the pieced farmland still visible, everything dead to the root along the barren bottomlands.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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