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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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And since that wild night in the desert, when the greatest closer of all time failed to deliver his team its fifth championship in six years, the Yankees have claimed a grand total of one World Series title in 24 seasons, and none since 2009.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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As the light began to fade over the desert mountains surrounding the capital, four saxophonists played huayno music from Huancayo.—
NPR,
NPR,
10 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
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According to the organization’s shutdown contingency plan, park roads, lookouts, trails and open air memorials will remain accessible to visitors.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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Since 2022, Tanger has acquired six open air centers around the country, including four outlet centers.—
David Moin,
Footwear News,
17 Sep. 2025
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Where homes, buildings and fields once stood in the southern city of Rafah, there were now craters and barren wastelands.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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New satellite imagery lays bare the sheer scale of the destruction in the Gaza Strip with two years of Israeli bombardment having turned much of the landscape into a wasteland.—
Freddie Clayton,
NBC news,
7 Oct. 2025
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The non-human residents of the Tasmanian wilderness play an important role in the show too, and not just as a reluctant meal.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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Renshaw endured domestic cricket’s wilderness for nearly five years before a recall in early 2023.—
Sam Dalling,
New York Times,
7 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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Released in 1972, Grub: The Bush Baby is written from the first-person perspective of a 2-year-old Grub and shares Goodall’s perspectives on raising her toddler in the African wilds.—
Emily Krauser,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Dust bowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowl. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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