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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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Over nearly four decades in the desert, Matzner donated more than $85 million to local nonprofits and helped the festival become an important stop on the Hollywood awards circuit.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Yet nearly 2,000 miles away, in one of America’s deserts, lives were reborn.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 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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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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And then there’s the freedom of open air.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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Mad Max is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is at once striking and surreal.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
3 Sep. 2025
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Drafting and trades have been consistently solid, but free agency has been a wasteland of negative value.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Norway is farther north and its wilderness, Trier believes, affects the culture.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
4 Sep. 2025
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And just outside of New York City, off Long Island’s south shore, Fire Island National Seashore provides an easy escape to a rare coastal wilderness for undisturbed hikes through dunes and salt marshes.—
Jeffrey C. Hallo,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
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Whether exploring the Royal Botanic Garden or watching sunset from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair—hand-carved by convicts in 1810—the city feels luminous, expansive, and just a little wild.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Owen — who has monitored the species in the Arctic wild — said monitoring Kalluk at the zoo also helped with better understanding polar bears’ body weight and fat stores, and therefore conservation efforts to protect them.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Dust bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowl. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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