wilderness
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Ivan Toney, who has spent almost a year in the international wilderness and now plays his club football in Saudi Arabia, has also not given up hope of making the squad.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
It’s just a giant piece of grass and wilderness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
"As a crime viewer, I've had enough of troubled, grizzled detectives in the wilderness battling their demons," he said.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
It would also require a rare act of “un-designating” some of the park’s protected wilderness areas.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026
They continued to regard themselves as people of the covenant, selected and commanded by their god to go into the wilderness to build the new promised land.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing wilderness
List 7
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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"Wilderness Letter"
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