wasteland
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However the bunker is still visible in a patch of wasteland.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
"I don't even go camping. I can't even imagine walking across the wasteland."
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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
People like Tommy know such wastelands hold opportunity.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 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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