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Definition of badland
: a region marked by intricate erosional sculpturing, scanty vegetation, and fantastically formed hills —usually used in plural
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BAGHDAD — The highway from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan, cuts through the insurgent badlands of the western Iraqi desert, and these days any truck driver risks confrontation with roving bands of gunmen.
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These two men, accompanied by teams of more-or-less willing students, stuck out every summer for the badlands of the Wild West in search of dinosaur fossils.
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The dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago in what are now the badlands of northern Montana.
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First Known Use of badland
1850
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