Thesaurus results for WILDERNESS

wilderness

noun

ˈwil-dər-nəs

Definition of wilderness

as in wild

that part of the physical world that is removed from human habitation released the wolf back into the wilderness

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Recent Examples of wilderness After three seasons, the Yellowjackets team returned home to New Jersey after 19 months in the wilderness. — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Only a few decades later, environmentalists recast wilderness as something that needed saving. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Exec produced by Sylvester Stallone and filmed in British Columbia, the show challenges ordinary people to survive alone in an unforgiving wilderness with no training, no supplies, and no contact with the outside world. — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026 David Ayer’s thriller stars Brad Pitt as a Special Forces officer navigating the wilderness with his combat dog. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for wilderness

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Noun

The result is a movie of dazzling conundrums and vertiginous paradoxes, leading Fielder ever deeper into emotional and intellectual wilds.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
Remember, this is an old-school program operating in a wild-west, NIL, transfer-portal landscape.

— Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of wild

Noun

Wright designed the residence in 1937 as his winter home and studio, imagining it as a desert camp that emerged from the arid grounds.

— Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2026
Brooke has arrived back at the family homestead in the California desert on Christmas Eve, bearing copies of her manuscript like a sinister Santa Claus.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of desert

Noun

The 20 countries at greatest risk of a worsening humanitarian crisis, ranked by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) annually in our Emergency Watchlist, represent just 12% of the global population, but 90% of those in humanitarian need.

— David Miliband, Time, 19 Oct. 2026
Many other countries and even continents would kill to have this level of ingenuity on their shores.

— Sarah Cannon, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of country

Noun

Here, any distinction between spa and safari collapses, and the outdoors and wellness weave together.

— Adrienne Matei, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
Smaller fractions of the money would be directed to the state’s Outdoor Equity Grant Program to help people access the outdoors and to the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office to help create new jobs in the industry.

— Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2026

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