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
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
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
Up here the country was quite barren and the hills were rocky and hard-baked clay furrowed by the rain.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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