deserted
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Dmitriev said a memorandum of understanding would be signed to look at a tentative project to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia’s largely deserted Far East.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Hours later, a correspondent said shops were closed and the area's streets were largely deserted.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
The movie’s title and setting—an endless expanse of deserted, largely furniture-free office space bathed in sickly yellow—come from a crowd-sourced urban legend or “creepypasta” that spread online before the pandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Those moments that had defined him had deserted him.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
And with each British victory, more African Americans deserted farms and plantations in what has been called the “largest slave uprising in our history.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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