- present tense form of desert (3rd person singular).
deserts
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Dangerously high temperatures will also affect the Inland Empire, inland Orange County, the valleys in San Diego County and the deserts and mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
The solar panels and wind turbines that have popped up over swathes of sun-soaked land, from the Tibetan Plateau to Xinjiang's deserts, are part of this vision.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
The deserts of northern Mexico similarly separated the urban centers of southern Mexico from the chiefdoms of the Mississippi Valley.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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