desiccated
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We drove past more empty lots, more abandoned groves, desiccated trees, signs announcing public hearings for land-use changes.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
"Everything is there. I was stuck here," he told AFP in Karachi, near the well-known Bengali market where he peddles desiccated fish and prawns to make ends meet for $7 to $9 per day.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
He was “working with the new FDA,” he said in a LinkedIn post in November, to remove from the market desiccated thyroid extracts, a product critical to another company led by Tang, American Laboratories Holdings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
Oregon’s Lake Abert has repeatedly dried up, and biologists have found that when it’s desiccated, more phalaropes fly farther south to Mono Lake.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
The clothes hung out to dry were still, stiff, as if desiccated by the hot afternoon sun.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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