badlands

Definition of badlandsnext
plural of badland

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Noun
  • Chase Travel Chase Travel’s 26 Trips to Take in 2026 highlights where booking demand and cultural curiosity are converging, with destinations spanning rugged deserts, coastal hideaways, Arctic wilderness, and global cultural capitals.
    Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Over 35% of counties in America are considered OB deserts, or maternal care deserts, meaning there aren’t any obstetric clinicians or hospitals or birth centers providing obstetric care.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • This quiz invites you to explore the darker corners of sci-fi literature, where monsters lurk not just in shadows, but in laboratories, alien worlds and post-apocalyptic wastelands.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The population surge caused widespread urchin barrens across the islands.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Given the surrounding terrain, largely comprising volcanic barrens and lava fields, the risk of wildfire remains low, and no life-threatening impacts have been identified.
    Isabel van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Badlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/badlands. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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