badland

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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? 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 See All Example Sentences for badland
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Noun
  • Locals call it one of the last truly wild places in Texas, where quail, elk and desert bighorn sheep roam.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Late Thursday night the Taliban’s military launched attacks on Pakistani positions along some sections of their porous and disputed border that wends 1,600 miles through rugged mountains and desert.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Some ghouls lose their humanity, while others become more violent shells of their former selves, attacking the wasteland creatures and the player.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Feb. 2026
  • In the current atmosphere, where so many have been conditioned to believe that the news media is a liberal wasteland, confirmation bias helps with the heavy lifting.
    Brenda Looper, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2026

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“Badland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badland. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.

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