: the flat-floored bottom of an undrained desert basin that becomes at times a shallow lake
variant spelling of player sense f
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Andrea Agostini Ferrer, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Researchers have linked the dust that blows off the playa to the region’s abnormally high rates of childhood asthma.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Burning Man is a weeklong end-of-summer bacchanalian arts festival that promotes radical self-expression and experimental community building, held annually on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2012
Meanwhile, dust storms swept over the playa, limiting visibility to a few feet and coating everyone with alkaline dust.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
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Once a year, thousands of people flock to the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert and set up camp in Black Rock City, a temporary city built on the festival’s guiding principles of self-reliance, inclusion and self-expression.
—Andrea Agostini Ferrer, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
Researchers have linked the dust that blows off the playa to the region’s abnormally high rates of childhood asthma.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Burning Man is a weeklong end-of-summer bacchanalian arts festival that promotes radical self-expression and experimental community building, held annually on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2012
Meanwhile, dust storms swept over the playa, limiting visibility to a few feet and coating everyone with alkaline dust.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
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“Playa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playa. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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