wasteland

Next, the quants have to figure out the discounted present value of the world as a postapocalyptic wasteland in 2030.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The play, which had its premiere off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, is a freewheeling love story, set in a skate park in the middle of an urban wasteland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

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

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

Millions of visitors are going to experience American cities that they’ve been told are unlivable wastelands.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2026

In both public perception and official policy, savannas in India and elsewhere have often been labeled "wastelands."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

Multiple generations of Americans have been socialized to believe that a mecca of cheap, dirty pleasures awaits in the wastelands of southern Nevada.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

But because much of the city’s waterfront sits atop wetlands or wastelands that are somewhat unstable, an earthquake could damage a building’s foundation, making it “uninhabitable or unusable,” according to the hazard plan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr