wilderness

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Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

“Pakistan was wandering in the geopolitical wilderness after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Elizabeth Threlkeld, a Pakistan expert at the Stimson Center, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The two had been 14 hours into the Inuvik Weekend Warrior Fat Bike Challenge - a three-day cycle across frozen rivers, remote highways and Canada's Arctic wilderness - when they were forced to withdraw.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

He’s understood in Ireland as a canny political operator who led his boring center-right party, Fianna Fáil, back to power after a decade in the wilderness.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

Hale was determined to transform not only himself but the wilderness from which he came—to cross-fence the open prairie and to create a network of trading posts and towns.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann