Thesaurus results for WASTELAND

wasteland

noun

ˈwāst-ˌland

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 Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between. —

Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026 Amid the dreary wasteland of modern technology, Black nerdom might save us yet. —

Tatiana Lee Rodriguez, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026 New York City is currently a bit of a wasteland for big box stores like Dick’s Sporting Goods or even Walmart that often sell that merchandise. —

Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 28 May 2026 Then came the internet, which would make the library a wasteland. —

Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for wasteland

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desert

Noun

Sitting on a patch of desert sand, the wind phone created by Colin Campbell and Gail Lerner consists of a wooden box sitting atop a cabinet with a chair nearby.

— Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain (ERNEST), developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently completed a 16-mile (26 kilometers) trek through the desert in Southern California.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 5 July 2026