barren

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Understanding how this wetter world transformed into the barren landscape we see now remains a major question in planetary science.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

A lonely coyote stalks the barren ground around oil pump jacks; a dead deer, its eye milky white, lies on a fern-like blanket of boughs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

By Sunday, the visible snow had expanded significantly down mountain ranges into lower altitudes, and blanketed parts of the Southern Sierra that were barren just 10 days earlier.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

In front of them was a clearing—a barren field of dust and stones.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan