barren
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In both cases, they create warm, nutrient-rich pockets in the otherwise cold and barren deep ocean.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
The terrain might look dry, dusty and seems rather barren, but it's far from that.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
Also barren for many years, she eventually receives a message directly from God that she will have twin sons and that her youngest son will one day rule.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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
A little beyond where the houses ended on the far side of Dactyl Hill, a towering concrete building stood surrounded by barren fields.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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