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Recent Examples of dust bowl
Well, that was because of all the people that came from the dust bowl out to California to work in the aeronautics industry.
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New Atlas, 10 July 2024
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
He was born in the dust bowl town of Dodge City, Kan., one year into the Great Depression in 1930.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
There's these dust bowls, there's a hurricane that basically wipes out the entire East Coast.
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
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New Atlas, 10 July 2024
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
—Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
He was born in the dust bowl town of Dodge City, Kan., one year into the Great Depression in 1930.
—Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
There's these dust bowls, there's a hurricane that basically wipes out the entire East Coast.
—Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 19 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowl
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In 2025, Thomas Detry made history in the desert, capturing his first career PGA TOUR win and becoming the first Belgian champion on the PGA TOUR.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Many thrillers end with shoot-outs and chases—in this case, a mighty three-car affair, brilliantly staged over a rolling desert highway.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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When this happens, their planet goes back and forth between being a searing, endless stretch of desert or frozen no-man's-land.—
JP Mangalindan,
Peoplemag,
29 Mar. 2024
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Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.—
David Ewing Duncan,
Outside Online,
17 May 2022
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The placement of every single raw product on ice in the seafood department’s open air cases is highly important and intentional.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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One of my favorite activities in Berlin is simply wandering around a local open air market.—
Vanessa Wachtmeister,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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After struggling with life inside a Greenland bunker, the anxious Garrity family decides to leave that safety and navigate a shattered and radioactive wasteland of Europe to find a new home.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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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
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Authorities have confirmed the human remains found in the Washington wilderness belong to the military veteran believed to have killed his three young daughters at a local campground earlier this year.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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According to federal court records, Decker had military training and experience living in the wilderness, at one point living off-the-grid in the backwoods for 2½ months.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Much of that responsibility must first fall to journalists, those brave enough to traverse the internet wilds and report back their findings, to help interpret, say, meme language etched onto bullets.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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Out in these unforgiving wilds, the five-cabin Ultima Thule Lodge (open May through September) is a beacon of backcountry luxury on the banks of the raging Chitina River.—
Nicholas DeRenzo,
AFAR Media,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Dust bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowl. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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