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Game of Thrones fans may recognize the badlands of Bardenas Reales in Navarre, about a four-hour drive northeast of Madrid.
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
Compared to the desolate, almost alien landscape of South Dakota, the North Dakota badlands are flush with vibrant vegetation: Rocky Mountain juniper woodlands, cottonwoods that thrive in the Little Missouri River basin, and sunflowers, asters, and rabbitbrush that bloom in the late summer months.
—Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
Try Riverbend Overlook to watch the constellations and planets float above the Missouri River, or hit up Painted Canyon Visitor Center to marvel at the shimmery nightscapes above the badlands.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025
Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh, a young widow now desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural badlands of India.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
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Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
Compared to the desolate, almost alien landscape of South Dakota, the North Dakota badlands are flush with vibrant vegetation: Rocky Mountain juniper woodlands, cottonwoods that thrive in the Little Missouri River basin, and sunflowers, asters, and rabbitbrush that bloom in the late summer months.
—Erica Zazo, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2025
Try Riverbend Overlook to watch the constellations and planets float above the Missouri River, or hit up Painted Canyon Visitor Center to marvel at the shimmery nightscapes above the badlands.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025
Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh, a young widow now desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural badlands of India.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
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Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, CA A chic escape for those looking to relax and recharge in the desert, Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa offers Functional Flow Yoga classes designed to enhance strength, mobility and balance through mindful movement.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Early in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Predator and later Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles allowed pilots in dark bases in the Nevada desert to attack militant targets in the Middle East.—
Tom Vanden Brook,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
8 May 2025
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Sending an all-time Avs legend to a hockey wasteland in Tobacco Road came back to bite the burgundy and blue in about the worst way imaginable.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
5 May 2025
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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