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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
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This bleakness makes for numerous memorably tense sequences, including a blackout, a bus ride, a rendezvous at an aquarium, and, bizarrely, a screening of an early Disney cartoon.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Apr. 2026
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To find out more, Newsweek spoke with Pixile Studios co-founder Michael One and narrative designer Ruben, about designing a battle royale in this distinct format, building a global live service as a small indie team, and how cuteness and bleakness are not contradictions.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As Bastian reads, a boy named Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), while pursued by a green-eyed creature called G’mork (Alan Oppenheimer), is dispatched by the Childlike Empress (Tami Stronach) to find the cure for the mysterious nothingness enveloping the kingdom.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
16 Apr. 2026
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The moon, appearing about the size of a bowling ball at arm’s length to the crew, hung in the nothingness.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Barrenness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barrenness. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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