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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.
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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
The 70,000-acre park protects a landscape in transition, where the great plains meet the canyons of the badlands.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
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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
The 70,000-acre park protects a landscape in transition, where the great plains meet the canyons of the badlands.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
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Comments Festival season has officially kicked off with hundreds of thousands of people flocking to the desert for Coachella 2025.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Apr. 2025
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What To Know In images released by Giles Pendleton, the Line's chief operating officer, the city's ground infrastructure can be seen taking shape, with the 200-meter-wide outline of the city showing in the desert of the Tabuk Province.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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The two lone wolves traverse a wasteland of vast canyons, derelict cityscapes and blazing oil fields, digitally rendered on blue screens.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Israeli campaign has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, displaced almost all of its 2.3 million population and left Gaza a wasteland.—
Emily Rose,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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