no-man's-land

as in desert
land that is uninhabited or not fit for crops the city's decayed industrial quarter is a no-man's-land of abandoned factories and weedy vacant lots

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Recent Examples on the Web Today, guerrillas, drug smugglers, poachers, and jaguars rule this vast no-man's-land. 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 Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/no-man%27s-land. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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