barren of

idiom

formal
: being without (something)
a hillside barren of trees

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Online court records are barren of details on these cases. Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025 Cashman had sought a starting pitcher to bolster a rotation that lost ace Gerrit Cole and Clarke Schmidt to season-ending elbow surgeries, but the market proved largely barren of high-impact starters. Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2025 But Downtown and Northern Kentucky’s shores are barren of floating restaurants. Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 July 2025 Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats. Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for barren of

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“Barren of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barren%20of. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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