- present tense form of desert (3rd person singular).
deserts
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The move seems especially poised to hit California, the most biodiverse state in the country, where more than 6,700 species are spread across mountains, forests, deserts and oceans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
From the bustling labs of the Northeast to the remote deserts of the Southwest, American ingenuity can be found everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
They then used machine-learning models that incorporated environmental data from deserts, tundra, forests, and other ecosystems to predict fungal network density in regions where direct measurements were unavailable.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Those monumental physical traces are to be found in the fertile plains, mountainsides and deserts of the Middle East.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
The deserts and empty seas swung by him, and the mountains against the stars.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing deserts
Twelfth Night
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