as in wild
that part of the physical world that is removed from human habitation
released the wolf back into the wilderness
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Recent Examples of wilderness
Introduced by Walt Disney in California in 1955, it was designed as a tribute to pioneer spirit, with riverboats, wilderness trails and frontier towns.
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Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is a wilderness island in an urban sea.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Charlize Theron stars as a grieving widow who embarks on a trip into the Australian wilderness, only to catch the attention of a hunter looking for easy prey.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Everglades National Park Everglades City Experience Florida’s wild, untamed beauty at the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
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Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is a wilderness island in an urban sea.
—Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Charlize Theron stars as a grieving widow who embarks on a trip into the Australian wilderness, only to catch the attention of a hunter looking for easy prey.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Everglades National Park Everglades City Experience Florida’s wild, untamed beauty at the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.
—Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wilderness
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Born at the zoo in 2024, Neukgu is a third-generation descendent of a group of wolves brought from Russia in 2008 as part of a project to reintroduce wolves resembling those that lived in the Korean wild before going extinct in the 1960s.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Today, the small wild-roaming herds are often viewed as a symbol of resilience and wisdom.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
26 Feb. 2026
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Most houses in the area were built by Palmer & Krisel, the architecture firm responsible for Palm Springs—from the car, see butterfly roofs; see lime-green desert modern; see hot pink, turquoise.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Construction in the Arizona desert damaged an enormous Indigenous ground etching resembling a fish that is thought to be at least 1,000 years old.—
Jake Spring,
Washington Post,
1 May 2026
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Though Baudelaire was influenced by Poe’s macabre imagination, decadence never developed its own school in nineteenth-century America, then still a young country.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Want to learn more about faraway countries on free embassy tours?—
Fritz Hahn,
Washington Post,
1 May 2026
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Spoonemore recommends slowly exposing broccoli seedlings to the outdoors so the plants can acclimate to temperature changes.—
Blythe Copeland,
Martha Stewart,
28 Apr. 2026
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Former employees who were part of the Great America staff back in ’76 will be on hand to celebrate the golden anniversary, a group that includes John Poimiroo, an outdoors and travel writer who served as the park’s publicist until the early 1980s.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Wilderness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wilderness. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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