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wasteland

[weyst-land] / ˈweɪstˌlænd /
NOUN
wilderness
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Half a lifetime ago, I had a crappy copyediting job that meant I had to drive for 90 minutes through traffic across the sprawling concrete wasteland of Phoenix.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026

By the mid-1980s, the North American Soccer League had collapsed—and the U.S. was widely viewed as a soccer wasteland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

It will be managed by the WHO which deals with all evacuation requests from a place the UN calls "a wasteland".

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

The jousting went all day and into the dusk, the hooves of the great warhorses pounding down the lists until the field was a ragged wasteland of tom earth.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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