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Mohave Desert

British  

noun

  1. another name for Mojave Desert

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CoreCivic’s 2,560-bed immigration detention center there sits on 70 acres in the Mohave Desert about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

He visited the Mohave Desert and saw a stretch of land called Tri-State was unoccupied.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Last year, in an initial trial event, Pacific-based forces stayed in Hawaii for their scheduled exercises at the National Training Center in California’s Mohave Desert.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2022

Needles, a city near the Mohave Desert, reached 122 F, one degree higher than its hottest-ever reading in 2003.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2021

I come out at ten thousand feet over the Mohave Desert, my altimeter still reading ten thousand feet.

From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy