deserts
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At 100, Attenborough no longer wanders the world's jungles and deserts.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
April is always an avalanche, but this year the early parts of the fall and spring season were deserts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
The others, with their hot deserts and big-sky plains, seem more obvious: Texas, Arizona and California.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
To better understand what happened on Mars, the team compared observations from the Curiosity rover with similar rock formations found in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates that formed under comparable conditions on Earth.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026
Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern to the southern temperate zone, while also encompassing some of the world’s driest deserts, largest tropical rain forests, and highest equatorial mountains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing deserts
Twelfth Night
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