wasteland
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“This is not just a place of hunting and fishing, it’s not a wasteland, it’s not a forgotten place,” she said, while noting that many locals are survivors who have rebuilt after devastating hurricanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It wasn’t long ago that cycling had fallen into a data-obsessed wasteland in which teams rode conservatively and winners seldom took risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 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
Shujaiya today is a flat wasteland of rubble.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
Now it was a wasteland of abandoned factories.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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
Aaron, meanwhile, plays Maximus, a member of the Brotherhood of Steel - one of the Fallout world's tribal communities that live outside in the wastelands.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
Their environments ran the gamut, from sword-and-sorcery settings to cyberpunk-themed planetwide cities to irradiated postapocalyptic zombie-infested wastelands.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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