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Recent Examples of badland
Does this explain, perhaps, why Hopkins would then traffic back and forth between the grand realms of British classical theatre and the badlands of the movies, over the years, with an ease denied even to Olivier?
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
These rocks are well exposed in the parched badlands of Wyoming, crisscrossed for more than a century by dinosaur hunters.
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Paul C. Sereno,
The Conversation,
24 Oct. 2025
Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail.
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Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Deserts and badlands, mountains and tropical islands and Northeast Atlantic beaches.
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Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
These rocks are well exposed in the parched badlands of Wyoming, crisscrossed for more than a century by dinosaur hunters.
—
Paul C. Sereno,
The Conversation,
24 Oct. 2025
Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail.
—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Deserts and badlands, mountains and tropical islands and Northeast Atlantic beaches.
—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
Noun
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Every year, about 90% of Central Oregon’s Deschutes River disappears into networks of canals and pipes traversing high desert.
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Extreme fire conditions were expected in Utah on Friday, with wind gusting up to 50 mph and low humidity across the southwest desert and central and southern mountains, including the area of the Cottonwood fire.
Noun
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This leaves the mid-market trapped in a dangerous wasteland, forced into destructive promotional cycles to protect foot traffic without possessing the scale to survive thin margins.
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In a few short decades every forest in Pennsylvania—and nearly the entirety of eastern North America—would be clear-cut and transformed into a wasteland of stumps.
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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