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wasteland

[weyst-land] / ˈweɪstˌlænd /
NOUN
wilderness
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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 was a wasteland of corporate buzzwords, 4 a.m. wake-up routines and stories about overcoming workplace adversity with a little something called grit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

McCarthy, addressing ProPublica on Substack, wrote: “You point to various online guides that offer what could be considered dangerous dosing instructions. We agree, the internet is a terrifying wasteland of misinformation and disinformation.”

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

The hit TV show is an adaptation of the popular role-playing game of the same name, set 200 years after a nuclear war leaves the Earth a wasteland.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2025

The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin




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