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- noun Plural form of
desert .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved
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Examples
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Steady practice will pay off by carrying you through those times when it seems like you are not making much progress at all—what we call the deserts.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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Steady practice will pay off by carrying you through those times when it seems like you are not making much progress at all—what we call the deserts.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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As we challenge parishes about Connect 09, and as I listen to ministers, we see what I call deserts and lost tribes.
SA Latest News 2008
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As we challenge parishes about Connect 09, and as I listen to ministers, we see what I call deserts and lost tribes.
SA Latest News Archbishop Peter Jensen 2008
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The corporate drive into the America's urban food deserts is reflective of the nation's food and financial crises.
Eric Holt Gimenez: King of the Food Deserts Eric Holt Gimenez 2010
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The problem of America's food deserts is complex and demands diversified, local solutions.
Eric Holt Gimenez: King of the Food Deserts Eric Holt Gimenez 2010
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I have traversed a vast portion of the earth, and have endured all the hardships which travellers, in deserts and barbarous countries, are wont to meet.
Chapter 24 2010
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The corporate drive into the America's urban food deserts is reflective of the nation's food and financial crises.
Eric Holt Gimenez: King of the Food Deserts Eric Holt Gimenez 2010
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He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man, and hide himself in deserts; but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
Chapter 3 2010
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Why is oil usually found in deserts and arctic areas?
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