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 If the Brotherhood can successfully build a Liberty Prime robot, the war in the wasteland is going to get ugly—and extremely violent—fast. —

Barry Levitt, Time, 4 Feb. 2026 By last year, the former wasteland had been transformed into a dense, productive Duzhong forest. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026 The film is shot like the dirty, oppressive wasteland it’s meant to be, and a lot of credit goes to the ensemble assembled here. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026 The documentary focuses on the inhabitants of Antarctica, and captures an apparent moment of madness within a colony of Adélie penguins, who endure scathingly harsh conditions in the icy wasteland. —

Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wasteland

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desert

Noun

Locals call it one of the last truly wild places in Texas, where quail, elk and desert bighorn sheep roam.

— Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
Late Thursday night the Taliban’s military launched attacks on Pakistani positions along some sections of their porous and disputed border that wends 1,600 miles through rugged mountains and desert.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026