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desolate

verb as in ravage, destroy

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The group stands out within the increasingly desolate Facebook newsfeed, not just for the volume of its posts but also the intensity of engagement, warranting a 30-person-strong moderation team.

From Slate

The ire of Zuckerberg’s fiercest critics is now focused on Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla chief who took over Twitter, renamed it X, turned it into a desolate wasteland of unmoderated right-wing propaganda, flooded it with his own conspiracy theories, and is campaigning for Donald Trump.

From Slate

Most of the marchers fell away en route, but by the end of June a Hooverville-like camp housing as many as 15,000 bedraggled men and their families had sprung up in the desolate, muddy Anacostia Flats area of Washington.

Discovery asked to use depicts “Blade Runner 2049” star Ryan Gosling walking away from the camera across a desolate, dystopian landscape reduced to rubble and reddish dirt.

A line formed out the door, even as the shopping plaza around the small restaurant was desolate.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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