wasteland
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It was a wasteland of corporate buzzwords, 4 a.m. wake-up routines and stories about overcoming workplace adversity with a little something called grit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 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
They’ve been doing covert “crawls” with the goal of locating and destroying Vecna before he turns the town, then the world, into an oozy wasteland.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2025
Just five years ago, midtown Manhattan was a wasteland as the pandemic dominated life in a city that had seen some of the darkest times of Covid-19 only months earlier.
From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025
Soon, a familiar landmark rose above the industrial wasteland.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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