as in desert
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops
with proper irrigation and fertilizer, they turned the desert wasteland into a fertile plain
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Recent Examples of wasteland
But even if the army succeeds, analysts see little chance of the war ending soon, and the fighting has already reduced much of the city to a charred wasteland.
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New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
In the course of the nineteen-eighties, New York transformed from a flaming wasteland of muggings, languid professionalism, and underground parties into a despoiled wilderness of muggings, careerism, and public glitz.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
But to suggest that the region, once called the Silk Stocking District, is a gastronomic wasteland is preposterous.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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New York Times, 22 Mar. 2025
All that’s left is a wasteland of half-baked ideas searching for a home.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
In the course of the nineteen-eighties, New York transformed from a flaming wasteland of muggings, languid professionalism, and underground parties into a despoiled wilderness of muggings, careerism, and public glitz.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025
But to suggest that the region, once called the Silk Stocking District, is a gastronomic wasteland is preposterous.
—John Mariani, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wasteland
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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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“Wasteland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteland. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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