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Discover LudwigThe phrase "waste land" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an area that is barren, desolate, or unproductive, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "After the factory closed, the once-bustling area became a waste land, filled with abandoned buildings and overgrown weeds."
Alternatives: "desolate area" or "barren land."
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WASTE LAND Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
Dungeness is not the waste land it at first appears.
Her one-woman performance of The Waste Land was an extraordinary feat of psychic ventriloquism.
There will also be a staging of The Waste Land, directed by Adrian Dunbar.
For Scott, it quickly and unexpectedly devolved into a waste land.
In the twentieth century, the epoch of "The Waste Land," an aesthetic of desolation took hold.
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20 T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land".
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