sere
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But when firefighters struggled to contain a 50-by-50-foot brush fire on a sere hillside in Laguna Niguel on Wednesday afternoon, officials grew concerned.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
The movie’s depictions of landscapes both sere and fertile, and its all-but-palpable portrayals of isolation, have echoes of the best work of Werner Herzog and Lucrecia Martel.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
The landscape is dry and sere, but a ribbon of green shrubs and trees flourishes along the creek.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
A sere moonscape of rock, sand and mountains, portions of the park lie 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2021
After inspecting the site itself—a wet, peaty bank strikingly unlike the sere desert home of Folsom and Clovis—the archaeologists ended up at a dimly lighted cantina with the appropriate name of La Caverna.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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