desert
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Even though the raging desert wind blows in every summer, Baba makes the garden grow great vegetables.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
The title character was left on a desert island when the rest of the Greeks went off to sack Troy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
"It would be a desert here" if the site closes, said David Martin, 32, who runs a restaurant in Almaraz that his parents opened in the 1980s at the same time as the plant.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Bernard lives next to the project site and has documented multiple desert tortoises on and around her property — including Squiggles, who was given the nickname for leaving wavy tracks in the sand.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
When she stepped from behind the bright yellow curtain, which also hid a secret office, she looked as if she’d just walked out of a pyramid in the desert.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing desert
Physical Geography - Introductory
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The American Civil War
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