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 New satellite imagery lays bare the sheer scale of the destruction in the Gaza Strip with two years of Israeli bombardment having turned much of the landscape into a wasteland. Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2025 And then people in the wasteland, the Raiders, are exactly like that. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025 Oil was discovered there in the 1920s, and the county went through booms and busts for decades, enriching wildcatters and devastating the landscape, until a lasting bust left Loving County a virtual wasteland with no running water, paved roads, schools, hospitals, or grocery stores. Mitch Moxley, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 After struggling with life inside a Greenland bunker, the anxious Garrity family decides to leave that safety and navigate a shattered and radioactive wasteland of Europe to find a new home. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wasteland
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desert
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  • Sipping craft cocktails in a desert oasis?
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
  • He was arrested out in the desert over a traffic ticket.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Wasteland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wasteland. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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