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badland

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as in desert

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Recent Examples on the Web Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp just wants to retire somewhere quiet after a lifetime of often brutal law enforcement taming the badlands of the American frontier. —

and Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 June 2024 In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 7-year-old cousin in the North Dakota badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock. —

Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 4 June 2024 Some of the most dramatic fossil discoveries in the U.S. have been made in the badlands of Montana. —

Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 The film follows Santosh (Shahana Goswami), a recent widow who, under a government scheme, inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. —

Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for badland

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