desolation
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"My outlook and my view of the world were not forged in Davos or Washington, but in places whose desolation I'm not sure you can even begin to fathom," he has said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Gone are the gritty warehouse districts, the nocturnal desolation of downtown and the shabby chic of South Beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
True, there is desolation, with cleared lots and blackened trees nearly everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The people of the world saw their planet as the astronauts saw it - fragile and beautiful, shining in the desolation of space.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
For a minute she allowed herself to hang deep underwater, floating somewhere between utter desolation and euphoria, all alone and yet surrounded by the hands of a million murmuring ancestors.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
Vocabulary lists containing desolation
The Declaration of Independence
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Fahrenheit 451
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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