desert
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They’ve terraformed the desert terrain by planting trees, building houses, and even constructing a Walmart and an airport.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
In one of Glover’s favorite pictures, snapped by his wife, he is sitting at his desk in his tan desert flight suit, focused on graduate school work while holding one of his daughters.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
A recent visit involved a multi-hour drive on a dark desert highway where grazing camels far outnumbered people.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Around 300,000 refugees have fled to eastern Mauritania's desert Hodh Chargui region to escape the violence that has plagued Mali for more than a decade.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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Vocabulary lists containing desert
Physical Geography - Introductory
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The American Civil War
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