desert
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Expect costumes, props and life-size vehicles from the film, as well as projection-based rooms designed to immerse guests in the desert planet of Arrakis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
They’ve floated ideas like buying remote islands, stockpiling iodine pills, or moving to electromagnetically shielded bunkers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The cold desert offers suitable observing conditions on around 260 nights a year.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Ali envisions someday performing as the bug in the desert in the Middle East and maybe building a children’s public playground as a “fun manifestation” of the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I knew if the caravan abandoned me here in the desert, I would be a wandering animal and very soon dead.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Last year, Northwestern University identified over 212 counties out of some 3,000 in the United States as "news deserts," having no locally-based news sources such as newspapers and public radio.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Julian joins the Air Force out of boredom and deserts for the same reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The findings come as ministers have pledged to tackle so-called "dental deserts", but dentists say the current deal is not viable.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Forecasters warned of elevated fire weather conditions in interior valleys, mountains and deserts across L.A.,
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
They had gone over mountains and across raw-burned deserts, from one province to the next.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
At night, the narrow cobbled streets of Old Havana are enveloped in inky black, devoid of power and virtually deserted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
A community garden has replaced a drug market, a library stands where an unofficial dumping ground once accumulated milk crates, and formerly deserted blocks now have families moving in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Destroyed buildings east of Deir al Balah, where farmland and residential areas appear largely deserted following the advance of the Yellow Line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Zheng looked out through the gap in the door to the deserted beach outside.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
In a mountainous village of post-war Italy, a taciturn Sicilian soldier hides out after deserting the army.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024
But that’s the way it’s been as my third and final child draws ever nearer to deserting the nest, as the role of “mother” becomes less CEO and more consultant emeritus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
If they could go to God together, be would not be deserting his mistress or sacrificing her happiness to his own.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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