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
When this happens, their planet goes back and forth between being a searing, endless stretch of desert or frozen no-man's-land.
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Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
—David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
—David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for no-man's-land
desert
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His death was one of at least three reported in little more than a month at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent facility in the desert on the grounds of Fort Bliss, an Army base.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Her home, made from scratch, sits off a rocky road, deep in the desert mountains of the American West.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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