wasteland

People tend to think of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as a nuclear wasteland.
How nature has taken over Chernobyl|Sara Chodosh|July 21, 2021|Popular-Science
Fundraising appeals have become a wasteland of laughable claims and empty threats that donors might not realize are so bogus or empty.
Fundraising appeals are a plague on our politics. Here’s why you should care.|Aaron Blake|April 8, 2021|Washington Post
That difference is important for understanding why one rocky planet may be lush and wet and habitable, while another is an arid wasteland.
Most of Mars’ missing water may lurk in its crust|Maria Temming|March 16, 2021|Science News
In addition, a biohybrid nose could also venture into contaminated wastelands to screen for toxic chemicals without harming a living being.
Scientists Made a Biohybrid Nose Using Cells From Mosquitoes|Shelly Fan|January 26, 2021|Singularity Hub

We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back.
Emma Glass’s ‘Rest and Be Thankful’ powerfully describes what it means to be a health-care worker|Pete Tosiello|December 2, 2020|Washington Post
Without it in the atmosphere, the Earth would be a barren, frozen wasteland.
Extreme Weather? Blame the End Times|Jay Michaelson|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He took a time period that was a wasteland and gave it intelligence, wit, and consistent humor.
The King Abdicates From Late-Night Nation|Tom Shales|April 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You question every decision—personal, professional, spiritual—that has led you to this snowy wasteland.
So You Are Enduring a Temporarily Paralyzing Winter Storm|Kelly Williams Brown|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The palm trees have gone, leaving a desolate wasteland of stumps reaching into the sky.
Typhoon Haiyan: The Philippine Village that Lost Its Men|The Telegraph|November 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He might just save his regime, even if he rules little more than a wasteland filled with corpses.
The Coalition of the Unwilling|Christopher Dickey|September 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Our whole Northern Hemisphere, where our greatest nations were, was devastated; much of it is wasteland to this day.
Uller Uprising|Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
Out of the cramped ships they came, to bound in freedom and fresh breathable air across the wasteland.
And Then the Town Took Off|Richard Wilson
It became the fashion to forsake the school field for the more adventurous wasteland of the neighbourhood.
Sinister Street, vol. 1|Compton Mackenzie
The Magellan lifted back into the sky, then moved out over the ocher wasteland that was the barren desert of the red planet.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet|Donald Allen Wollheim
He chased them through the burning solitudes of that vast Northern wasteland like a veritable bloodhound.
Famous Indian Chiefs|Charles H. L. Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for wasteland

wasteland

/ (ˈweɪstˌlænd) /

noun

a barren or desolate area of land, not or no longer used for cultivation or building

a region, period in history, etc, that is considered spiritually, intellectually, or aesthetically barren or desolateAmerican television is a cultural wasteland

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