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Empty Quarter

British  

noun

  1. another name for Rub` al Khali

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The trip across the desolate dunes of the Empty Quarter took several days, skirting the kingdom’s southern border.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022

“People in Dubai may not even think about them, but young people here care deeply about camels,” said Mahmoud Suboh, a festival coordinator from Liwa Oasis at the northern edge of the desert’s Empty Quarter.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021

An Aramco oil tank is seen at the Production facility at Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oilfield in the Empty Quarter, Saudi Arabia May 22, 2018.

From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2021

The sinking air is dry and cloudless, and underneath are the Sahara, the Empty Quarter, and the Kalahari.

From Scientific American • Nov. 21, 2018

Shortly after World War II, a young Englishman decides to trek across the Empty Quarter of Arabia; his spare prose captures the vanishing nomadic way of life in one of the planet’s harshest environments.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2015

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