wilderness
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"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
Ross Stewart ends four years in the international wilderness with a place in Scotland's World Cup squad, while teenager Findlay Curtis is also included but there is no spot for Lennon Miller.
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
Essential to a wilderness is its capacity to bewilder, and though certain of Church’s colleagues in the Hudson River group, notably Worthington Whittredge, brilliantly captured this dense, enfolding quality, Church seldom did.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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List 7
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"Wilderness Letter"
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