wasteland
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barren, desert, desolation, heath, no-man's-land, waste
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The blaze also kindled a local movement to bring high-quality parks and trails into the lower Cuyahoga Valley in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, once written off as a polluted wasteland. — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, "Burning River legacy: Towpath Trail spurs rediscovery of Cuyahoga Valley, erasing east-west divide," 9 June 2019 The mice are now a literal plague, reducing fields of grass and grain to brown, barren wastelands. — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, "A plague upon your land: Mouse damage visible from space," 25 July 2019 Billions of Legos would soon be strewn throughout our national parks, rendering the hiking trails into hostile, impassable wastelands. — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, "Be Yourself, the Screen Commanded," 25 July 2019 Six years after the catastrophe, the core of the town remains a wasteland, with much of the once-vibrant downtown a weed lot. — Ian Austen, New York Times, "A Runaway Train Explosion Killed 47, but Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails," 16 July 2019 My neighborhood in West Baltimore is now an economic wasteland. — John Blake, CNN, "What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore," 3 Aug. 2019 Earlier, in December 2018, an expert committee formed by the MoEFCC had come out with a report recommending the leasing of wasteland to the corporate sector for re-greening. — Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz India, "India is counting on private players to rejuvenate its forests, but will that work?," 24 July 2019 My inbox is a wasteland of free trials canceled just in the nick of time. — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, "Plex makes piracy just another streaming service," 23 July 2019 What had been the wealthiest nation in South America is now a wasteland of poverty for the citizens, and a golden throne built on theft and corruption by the current totalitarian demagogues. — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, "Letters: Private-public partnership for U.S. 36 was a mistake (7/17/19)," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wasteland.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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