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wasteland

[weyst-land] / ˈweɪstˌlænd /
NOUN
wilderness
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Roco is “Hell Grind’s” protagonist, who journeys through a dystopian wasteland to save his fellow thief and love interest Lulu.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Shujaiya today is a flat wasteland of rubble.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

McCarthy, addressing ProPublica on Substack, wrote: “You point to various online guides that offer what could be considered dangerous dosing instructions. We agree, the internet is a terrifying wasteland of misinformation and disinformation.”

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

They called the place La Ciénega, a corruption of an Indigenous word and an incongruous name — the swamp — in a desert wasteland.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

The houses they lived in were scattered about the wasteland, and were mostly little thatch-roofed huts with floors and porches decked smooth with cowdung.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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