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badland

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as in desert

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Recent Examples of badland In 1886, the last wild buffalo on the Great Plains was killed among the steep bluffs and badlands of central Montana, the final remnant of the tens of millions of bison that once roamed the nation’s vast prairies. — Tyson Running Wolf, Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2026 Having once roamed what is today the Wyoming badlands, Trey now stands alone in a secure room, its tail slightly curved and legs angled as if poised to take a step. — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 24 Mar. 2026 At 88, the legendary artist, dressed in a black smock, was filmed walking through the eroded sculptural features of the badlands, her face furrowed by age, her eyes still blazing. — John Burnett, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026 Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail. — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for badland

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Thousands of people began flooding through the entrance gates at midnight for the annual event in which participants create Black Rock City from scratch in the desert about 80 miles north of Reno.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026
Pressing the Gravity’s DreamDrive button (located on the steering wheel), for instance, drove me from the Northridge area in northwest Los Angeles to the high desert north of Castaic, California (about a 25-mile drive).

— Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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Supposedly posing a threat to their idyll on the outskirts are various marauding splinter groups running amok through the barren wasteland of the American Mountain West.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2026
The 2015 action film, set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, stars Theron as warrior Imperator Furiosa, who leads the daring escape of female prisoners from a tyrannical ruler.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 23 Aug. 2026

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