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dust bowls

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plural of dust bowl

as in deserts

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Beginning in the late 1960s, artists abandoned galleries in favour of deserts, salt flats, mesas, and remote terrain, using these surroundings as both setting and material.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
In the low-elevation deserts of Eastern California, the sun sits high in the sky during late June and pours energy into the ground for much of the day.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of deserts

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Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
Now, the anti-wealth Marxist agenda taking over the Democratic Party is worsening the divide, turning blue-state economies into wastelands and condemning their least mobile residents to poverty.

— Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2026

Definition of wastelands

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Being under 5-foot-4 can make clothes shopping tough—pants drag, dresses hang long, and constant tailoring wastes time and money.

— Melony Forcier, InStyle, 24 June 2026
Nolan and the cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, wielding heavy IMAX cameras, shot their picture across the Mediterranean and beyond, in caves, castles, beaches, black-sand wastes, and open water.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

Definition of wastes

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In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.

— Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
The forests are marked by sparse conifer stands, woodlands, herbaceous vegetation, and unvegetated barrens that dominate the transition to Arctic tundra.

— Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Feb. 2026

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Hawaiian Tropic’s zinc oxide formula, a physical UV blocker, brushes on with a matte, translucent finish and leaves no white cast on most skin tones.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 1, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
From clever watermelon slicers to brushes designed to slide into tight crevices, shop more surprisingly useful gadgets below.

— Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2026

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