dust bowls

noun

plural of dust bowl
as in deserts

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  1. deserts
  2. wastelands
  3. wastes
  4. barrens
  5. heaths
  6. brushes
Noun
  • The move seems especially poised to hit California, the most biodiverse state in the country, where more than 6,700 species are spread across mountains, forests, deserts and oceans.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • During the Roman Civil War, Cato led a Republican army through the deserts of Libya, where his soldiers encountered heat, sand, and the various spawn of Medusa.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of deserts
Noun
  • Pedro Pascal has carried galaxies and post-apocalyptic wastelands on his back.
    — Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2026
  • Anthony Mackie plays John Doe, a motormouth scavenger eking out a living in the wastelands of the former United States.
    — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
Definition of wastelands
Noun
  • Sending spent batteries to landfills wastes valuable materials and years of remaining electrochemical life.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2026
  • Being under 5-foot-4 can make clothes shopping tough—pants drag, dresses hang long, and constant tailoring wastes time and money.
    — Melony Forcier, InStyle, 24 June 2026
Definition of wastes
Noun
  • In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of barrens
Noun
  • Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Definition of heaths
Noun
  • Wire grill brushes have long been considered the best of the best, and Pitmasters love how bristle brushes clean grates twice as fast, and more effectively, too.
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026
  • Recent years of brushes with financial regulations have coincided with several long-term absentees, including Boubacar Kamara, Tyrone Mings and Emiliano Buendia.
    — Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 7 July 2026
Definition of brushes
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