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Recent Examples of badland
Does this explain, perhaps, why Hopkins would then traffic back and forth between the grand realms of British classical theatre and the badlands of the movies, over the years, with an ease denied even to Olivier?
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
These rocks are well exposed in the parched badlands of Wyoming, crisscrossed for more than a century by dinosaur hunters.
—Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025
Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Deserts and badlands, mountains and tropical islands and Northeast Atlantic beaches.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
These rocks are well exposed in the parched badlands of Wyoming, crisscrossed for more than a century by dinosaur hunters.
—Paul C. Sereno, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025
Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Deserts and badlands, mountains and tropical islands and Northeast Atlantic beaches.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
Noun
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As well as acting as a bulwark against the desert’s encroachment, the greenery is intended to improve agricultural conditions and reduce political unrest in the area, and will act as a carbon sink, Gizmodo reported.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Previously, Cassidy worked for the Arizona Republic covering Phoenix police, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and desert-area crime and mayhem.—
Megan Cassidy,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Apr. 2026
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Now, the anti-wealth Marxist agenda taking over the Democratic Party is worsening the divide, turning blue-state economies into wastelands and condemning their least mobile residents to poverty.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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The shrinking lake left behind a wasteland crusted in toxic salt.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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