Thar Desert
Americannoun
noun
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The dates will be planted in the arid Thar Desert of northern India to help reclaim the land and create employment.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
A team of scientists in the Thar Desert discovered an entirely new dinosaur species: Tharosaurus indicus.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 22, 2023
The bad air settles over the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India, trapped on either side by the Thar Desert and the Himalayas, forming a toxic stew.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Located on the fringes of the Thar Desert, it is the lair of the exuberant Reggie Singh, a cousin to the Maharajah of Jodhpur and owner of the surrounding namesake, Reggie’s Camel Camp Osian.
From Time ● Mar. 14, 2013
For he knew well that there was plenty more world to conquer, could one conquer it: rich and mighty kingdoms beyond that Thar Desert his soldiers are said to have refused to cross.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth
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