as in desert
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops with proper irrigation and fertilizer, they turned the desert wasteland into a fertile plain

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Recent Examples of wasteland This hi-tech vehicle and mobile lab was piloted by a trio of young scientists and a talking chimp who scoured the wastelands of a future Earth looking for other survivors after a new Dark Ages had fallen due to extreme pollution and endless wars. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 May 2025 With too little carbon dioxide, Earth can become a frozen wasteland, and with too much, a sweltering inferno. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 16 Apr. 2025 Leicester find an unsubtle way to outdo them, their eighth home loss in a row without scoring a goal uncharted territory in English league history but wasteland, nonetheless. George Caulkin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 In 1982, Springsteen released a stark collection of four-track demos, haunted American wasteland tales primarily told with his voice ragged and his acoustic shuddering. Ryan Leas, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wasteland
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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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“Wasteland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteland. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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