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Recent Examples of barrenness
Clearly, her absurd office dredged its barrenness from her.
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Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Instead, Bevza felt a pressing need to remedy the barrenness of the Ukrainian fashion scene at the time.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
Self-awareness and community are marvelous antidotes to the barrenness of conformity.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
Instead, Bevza felt a pressing need to remedy the barrenness of the Ukrainian fashion scene at the time.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 30 Dec. 2025
Self-awareness and community are marvelous antidotes to the barrenness of conformity.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for barrenness
Noun
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Thus Cuarón is free to break the bleakness in his life with the surreal life where a kiss becomes the ticket for romantic flight into the skies.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
23 Mar. 2026
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But even amidst so much bewildering bleakness, there are moments of beauty to be found in a new season, in a new revolution of the wheel of the year.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But that nothingness slowly but surely became one of the most popular sitcoms ever.—
Will Harris,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Mar. 2026
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At roughly nine thousand three hundred feet above sea level, the thin subzero air assaulted my lungs immediately, and the reflective background and uninterrupted nothingness attracted my focus to hints of pastel colors.—
Cree LeFavour,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Barrenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrenness. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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