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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
Noun
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Sipping craft cocktails in a desert oasis?—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
24 Oct. 2025
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He was arrested out in the desert over a traffic ticket.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 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
Noun
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Outside is an open air patio, where family and friends gather for long dinners next to a kitchen plastered with family pictures.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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One is called Culex pipiens form pipiens, which only bites birds and lives in open air environments, and the other is called Culex pipiens form molestus — from the Latin word for annoying — which bites humans and thrives belowground.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As Prime Video prepares to return to the post-nuclear dystopia of Fallout, two major characters bonded over the desert wasteland.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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Roughly six million years ago, shifting tectonic plates closed the Strait of Gibraltar — a narrow body of water connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean — turning the area into a desertic wasteland.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
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Nearly a million acres of wilderness stretch across Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, but in the heart of it are three mineral pools—their waters naturally heated within the earth and bubbling at a soothing 99 to 104 degrees.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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Phillips, who came from a farming family in Marokopa, disappeared with his children into the rugged wilderness during a bitter family split in December 2021.—
Laura Sharman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Denver, of course, roared to life in the fourth quarter Sunday against the New York Giants, scoring a franchise-record 33 fourth-quarter points to hang on for a wild-as-you’ll-see 33-32 victory.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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However, some fish are more difficult to breed and raise, and may only be available as wild-caught.—
Simon Spichak,
Health,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Dust bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowl. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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