no-man's-land
noun
1
a
: an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land
b
: an unoccupied area between opposing armies
c
: an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation
downtown was a retailing no-man's-land
2
: an anomalous, ambiguous, or indefinite area especially of operation, application, or jurisdiction
the no-man's-land between art and science
Examples of no-man's-land in a Sentence
the city's decayed industrial quarter is a no-man's-land of abandoned factories and weedy vacant lots
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Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land.
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David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
When this happens, their planet goes back and forth between being a searing, endless stretch of desert or frozen no-man's-land.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
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David Ewing Duncan, Outside Online, 17 May 2022
When this happens, their planet goes back and forth between being a searing, endless stretch of desert or frozen no-man's-land.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
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“No-man's-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no-man%27s-land. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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