desert
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It should begin warming up Monday, resulting in highs in the 70s and lower 80s in the valleys and the mid to upper 80s in the desert.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Vegas’s two regular starters, including the one that backstopped them during their championship run in 2023, were mired in the worst seasons of their careers in the desert.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Only two survived, trekking more than 50km across the desert to Assamaka, where they alerted authorities.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
I hadn’t lived in a food desert, though there were plenty close enough to me.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Sakharov’s own reaction was remarkably similar to what Robert Oppenheimer had experienced when he watched the world’s first atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert ten years before.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing desert
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