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It isn’t perfect symmetry—Indiana football was much more desolate than Nebraska hoops, and now the Hoosiers are roaring atop college football entering Friday’s playoff semifinal against Oregon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Either way, the new shops and restaurants aren’t on Third Avenue, which has become ever more desolate.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

I feel like it could have gone a sort of darker, more desolate visual style as opposed to Moebius, which is very poppy and bright.

From The Verge ● Jun. 5, 2022

In trying to outmaneuver their mortality and reconnect with one another, Orpheus, Eurydice and Eurydice’s father each arrive at an oblivion more desolate and lonely than what they’d known before.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

They turn onto a bumpy road off the highway, which grows bumpier and bumpier as it climbs up into wilder, more desolate country.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez



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