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With security threats increasingly powered by AI, from sophisticated Gmail attacks to malicious advertising accounts that can lead to search engine compromise, there’s no doubt that this is the new frontier of the cybersecurity badlands.
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Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Blair Valley Location: Anza Borrego Desert State Park The largest state park in California, the Anza Borrego Desert State Park has badlands, palm oases, mountain peaks, and waterfalls all accessed by miles of unpaved roads and hiking trails.
—Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
There are desert badlands, frosty tundra, underwater temples, shipwrecks, lush caves teeming with life, and much more.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
Game of Thrones fans may recognize the badlands of Bardenas Reales in Navarre, about a four-hour drive northeast of Madrid.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
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Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Blair Valley Location: Anza Borrego Desert State Park The largest state park in California, the Anza Borrego Desert State Park has badlands, palm oases, mountain peaks, and waterfalls all accessed by miles of unpaved roads and hiking trails.
—Jenna Blough, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2025
There are desert badlands, frosty tundra, underwater temples, shipwrecks, lush caves teeming with life, and much more.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
Game of Thrones fans may recognize the badlands of Bardenas Reales in Navarre, about a four-hour drive northeast of Madrid.
—Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
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Photo: Leo Fox A relative hotel desert until recent years, a crop of new addresses are cementing Valencia’s resurgence as a travel destination.—
Elizabeth Bennett,
Vogue,
20 June 2025
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The biggest find on Tracks II is Inyo, a portrait of the California badlands, set in border towns, desert roads, and aqueducts, with the heavy influence of mariachi bands.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
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So much was erased in so little time, leaving the lasting impression, whether from afar or close-up, of a wasteland — a place almost wiped off the map.—
Greg Goldin,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
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Our Western inheritance, then: the concept of the deep underground as wasteland, dump, terminus of the unredeemable.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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