wilderness
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Ivan Toney came on for the second half in Tampa after spending a year in the England wilderness, following a three-minute appearance in the friendly defeat against Senegal at the City Ground, Nottingham.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
"Everything from wilderness survival training and sea survival to a lot of classroom-based stuff, physics, engineering, biology, human performance, and behaviour," he told BBC Breakfast.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
The Brown family and their life in the Alaskan wilderness were the subject of the reality TV show “Alaskan Bush People,” which ran on the Discovery Channel from 2014 to 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Mr. Moore laments that, because of such thinking, the comeback of the Eastern wilderness may be reversed.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
To her, “survive” meant like if you were out in the desert or jungle or maybe the Alaskan wilderness.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Vocabulary lists containing wilderness
List 7
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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