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Deserts and badlands, mountains and tropical islands and Northeast Atlantic beaches.
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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
That is because of the wide-open spaces of the badlands and minimal light pollution.
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
The film is set to shoot next week in the Saskatchewan badlands.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 23 July 2025
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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Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 23 Aug. 2025
That is because of the wide-open spaces of the badlands and minimal light pollution.
—Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
The film is set to shoot next week in the Saskatchewan badlands.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 23 July 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for badland
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The Red Ghost The Red Ghost is a legendary figure from Arizona's Wild West days, a mysterious creature that terrorized the rugged desert in the late 19th century.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Though Lyra first sought answers through the Aurora Borealis, she is destined to discover the true nature of Dust in the deserts of Central Asia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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Instead, the war that resulted transformed the archipelago into a post-apocalyptic wasteland of famine, disease, ecological disaster, and hundreds of thousands dead.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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Where homes, buildings and fields once stood in the southern city of Rafah, there were now craters and barren wastelands.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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