wilderness
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According to the biblical Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia spent seven years in the wilderness eating grass and behaving like an ox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
There are an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 Sami people across the vast Arctic wilderness of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia's Kola peninsula.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Instead, he went for the flourish, trying to take it round the Slovenian and marking his return to the side after 2,005 days in the wilderness with a first goal on his 17th appearance.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He could not wait to show me the salmon and the black bears, and everything in the Canadian wilderness that he had told me so much about.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
AppLovin has an ad platform that facilitates ads surrounding mobile apps, especially games, one of the last untamed wildernesses of digital advertising.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
For Ally Turner and her friend Glynis Mattheisen, it took a three day trek through one of Scotland's last great wildernesses to reach Britain's remotest pub.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The foragers were there before us and they brought about dramatic changes even in the densest jungles and the most desolate wildernesses.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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