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 The Dedinis didn’t know where to go to find frogs or how to distinguish the croaks of legal species against the nighttime wilderness orchestra. Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025 That’s where the gold fever hit in the 1850s gold rush, as men swarmed into the wilderness searching for that precious metal. Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025 Tom Phillips vanished into the Waikato wilderness with his children shortly before Christmas in 2021 following a dispute with their mother, who held sole custody, according to local officials. Ronn Blitzer , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025 The Great Work is about a grizzled alchemist and his nephew tracking a strange creature through the Washington wilderness near the end of the nineteenth century. Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wilderness
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Noun
  • Whether exploring the Royal Botanic Garden or watching sunset from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair—hand-carved by convicts in 1810—the city feels luminous, expansive, and just a little wild.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • In England, Aidan Morris went 90 for a second straight week in Middlesbrough’s 3-0 win over Millwall in the second-tier Championship, and Tyler Adams nearly went the distance for Bournemouth in a wild, ultimately unsuccessful Premier League-opening 4-2 loss at champions Liverpool.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Husband Jeff, meanwhile, stuck to his own formula of chinos, polos, and brown desert boots.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Deadline’s deep dive on Desert Warrior last October revealed how the film encountered issues after its grueling 2021 shoot in the Saudi desert.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Neural highways that once buzzed with activity are becoming quiet country roads, rarely traveled and slowly overgrown.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This administration is trying to thrust our country into turmoil in order to reap power for themselves.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Wilderness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wilderness. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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