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Droughts and sandstorms are forcing hundreds of thousands of rural residents to leave their homes.
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Marwa Daoudy, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The road was rutted, and the drive was interrupted by sandstorms that swept in without warning, sometimes forcing us to a complete stop.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Walking through this sandstorm is accompanied by an appropriate blowing sound effect on the DualSense controller.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
The endless stretches of desert, the forbidding fortresses rising out of dead expanses, the raging sandstorms that turn characters into hazy Turner-smudges — none of these seem particularly real because, surely, they were never supposed to.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
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Marwa Daoudy, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The road was rutted, and the drive was interrupted by sandstorms that swept in without warning, sometimes forcing us to a complete stop.
—Declan Walsh, New York Times, 14 June 2024
Walking through this sandstorm is accompanied by an appropriate blowing sound effect on the DualSense controller.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
The endless stretches of desert, the forbidding fortresses rising out of dead expanses, the raging sandstorms that turn characters into hazy Turner-smudges — none of these seem particularly real because, surely, they were never supposed to.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 2024
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“Sandstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandstorm. Accessed 11 Oct. 2024.
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