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wilderness

[wil-der-nis] / ˈwɪl dər nɪs /


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The Social Reckoning was beaten in the US box office chart by horror movie Other Mommy, psychological thriller Verity, video game adaptation Resident Evil and Brad Pitt's wilderness thriller Heart of the Beast.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

Events cannot alter the movement of visitors, wildlife or traffic, close roads or trails, or take place in designated wilderness areas.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

They also adapted “new” tactics for wilderness warfare to support their overall goal of taking over the homelands of the Indigenous peoples.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

America’s great national parks and wildernesses must be littered with dead relatives.

From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026

He came out of Africa and had spent years in the wildernesses of the East and the West.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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

The famous walking route from the central belt to the Highlands takes walkers along the shores of Loch Lomond and across Rannoch Moor - one of the last wildernesses in Europe.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025

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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