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Great Salt Lake Desert

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noun

  1. an arid region in NW Utah, extending W from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border. 110 miles (177 km) long; about 4,000 sq. mi. (10,360 sq. km).


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The not-batteries are shoveled into massive metal containers with soft tops and are trucked to Grassy Mountain, a waste disposal facility in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

Today, the Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2021

Slowed by parachutes, the 32-inch-wide capsule will land on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Utah Test and Training Range, a vast, desolate expanse in the Great Salt Lake Desert.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

These things take dryness to a certain level ... but none of them comes close to the Great Salt Lake Desert that is the financial reports of football clubs.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2010

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