as in desert
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops
the city's decayed industrial quarter is a no-man's-land of abandoned factories and weedy vacant lots
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Recent Examples of no-man's-land
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
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David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
—David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
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
David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
—David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-man's-land
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The woman, who attorneys identified only by her first name, Erika, had been wandering in the Arizona desert alone for two days while eight months pregnant before being detained by US Customs and Border Protection agents on Monday, her attorney Luis Campos told CNN.—
Julia Vargas Jones,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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Progress on the Line shows that foundation work for the structure is underway, along with electricity infrastructure in the form of large wind farms in the desert.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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“No-man's-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-man%27s-land. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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