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wasteland

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A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

Any barren or uninteresting place.
After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

A devastated, uninhabitable area.

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After a wild ride, Jaeger wakes up in a desert wasteland with no idea how he got there. Source: Internet

After years of being dismissed as a cultural wasteland, Los Angeles has finally earned its moment in the proverbial sun. Source: Internet

D'Este, Carlo, 1983 p. 322-323 On 7 July, Montgomery began Operation Charnwood with a carpet bombing offensive that turned much of the French countryside and the city of Caen into a wasteland. Source: Internet

D'Este, p. 202 (1983) On the early morning of 18 July 1944, Operation Goodwood began with British heavy bombers beginning a carpet bombing attacks that turned what was left of Caen and the surrounding countryside into a wasteland. Source: Internet

It was a wasteland of active volcanoes, hordes of reindeer and hot springs. Source: Internet

He travels to a forbidden lagoon known as the Dead Sea—a wasteland frozen in time, dotted with futuristic ruins. citation At the center, he locates a man named Miguel and presumably Home world's Frozen Flame. Source: Internet

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