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wasteland

[weyst-land] / ˈweɪstˌlænd /
NOUN
wilderness
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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

It was no longer the fire-stricken wasteland he saw in the videos, but in fact quite green.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Just five years ago, midtown Manhattan was a wasteland as the pandemic dominated life in a city that had seen some of the darkest times of Covid-19 only months earlier.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

Critics called the purchase 'Seward's Folly', arguing the land amounted to a frozen wasteland.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

"I left him behind. In a barren, unreachable, godforsaken wasteland."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir