no-man's-land

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. 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
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desert
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  • This film, set in 1956, hops between the Palazzo Korda, its protagonist’s cavernous mansion, and different quarters of Modern Greater Independent Phoenicia, a vague Middle Eastern nation that’s depicted as an array of deserts, warring factions, and colonial outposts.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 May 2025
  • This would accelerate the desert sheikhdom’s ability to the build data centers needed to power its AI models.
    Natasha Turak, CNBC, 16 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 28 May. 2025.

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