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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dust bowls
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Typically, people recover meteorites in geologically unchanging regions, such as deserts or ice fields, where the meteorites stand out against the landscape.—
Adam Lark,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026 -
Some were left in remote or dangerous conditions, such as deserts, with little access to food and water, or ability to contact family members.—
Cara A. Kinnally,
Time,
15 June 2026
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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
4 June 2026
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Thirty minutes south, on the Tennessee side of the border, Elon Musk has already begun transforming the industrial wastelands of South Memphis.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
1 Jan. 2026
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Cutting off funding mid-trial wastes research dollars and puts patients at risk.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
18 Nov. 2025
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CAFOs also can not sell their wastes to third parties, a common practice in the industry known as manifesting, during those time periods.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
17 Nov. 2025
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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
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The population surge caused widespread urchin barrens across the islands.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Dec. 2025
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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
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Broken brushes, split sponges, and gloves with even the most microscopic of holes should all be discarded and replaced.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
17 July 2025
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Note that the brushes in Illustrator create vector art, while those in Photoshop create raster art.—
Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Dust bowls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dust%20bowls. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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