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no-man's-lands

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plural of no-man's-land

as in deserts

land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops the city's decayed industrial quarter is a no-man's-land of abandoned factories and weedy vacant lots

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But the ghost lineage DNA shows up in both Neanderthal and Denisovan deserts.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Every year, millions of pilgrims walk from the deserts of southern Iraq to the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world.

— Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

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In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.

— Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.

— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026

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