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wilderness

[wil-der-nis] / ˈwɪl dər nɪs /


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Sometimes hungry villagers walk for more than three hours into the wilderness before locating the trees.

From BBC

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 Literature

He’s understood in Ireland as a canny political operator who led his boring center-right party, Fianna Fáil, back to power after a decade in the wilderness.

From Salon

Nearly 60 years ago, a cowboy rode on horseback into the Northern California wilderness with a 16mm camera.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the 1960s, a shaky film shot in the wilderness helped launch the Bigfoot industry, enriching and then upending the lives of the men behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal