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  • noun a desert area in southern California and western Arizona

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Examples

  • Ringling was slapped with the largest fine in circus history for violations of the Animal Welfare Act that included letting a lion die in the heat of the Mohave Desert rather than stopping to give him water or using a cooling system.

    Ingrid Newkirk: 2011 a Banner Year for Animals Ingrid Newkirk 2011

  • Ringling was slapped with the largest fine in circus history for violations of the Animal Welfare Act that included letting a lion die in the heat of the Mohave Desert rather than stopping to give him water or using a cooling system.

    Ingrid Newkirk: 2011 a Banner Year for Animals Ingrid Newkirk 2011

  • Ringling was slapped with the largest fine in circus history for violations of the Animal Welfare Act that included letting a lion die in the heat of the Mohave Desert rather than stopping to give him water or using a cooling system.

    Ingrid Newkirk: 2011 a Banner Year for Animals Ingrid Newkirk 2011

  • It's in the western Mohave Desert, a large stretch of land with a small population, about 14,000, a place where dirt bike riding is surpassed only by motorcycle racing in popularity, a place Will McLain can't wait to leave.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009 2009

  • In the western Mohave Desert, a large stretch of land with a small population, about 14,000.

    CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2009 2009

  • North of a sagging line between the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs) and Needles, California, it merges almost imperceptibly into the lower Mohave Desert.

    Subdivisions of the Sonoran Desert 2009

  • California's Mohave Desert is an inhospitable place, he notes, but 19 companies think it's perfect for siting solar or wind facilities on 500,000 acres owned by the federal government there.

    Dianne Feinstein: I Brake for Turtles 2009

  • It's in the western Mohave Desert, a large stretch of land with a small population about 14,000.

    CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2009 2009

  • The amount of water that you found on that space on the moon, how would that compare to maybe some like the Mohave Desert or the Sahara dessert?

    CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009 2009

  • It's in the western Mohave Desert, a large stretch of land with a small population, about 14,000, a place where dirt bike riding is surpassed only by motorcycle racing in popularity, a place Will McLain can't wait to leave.

    CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009 2009

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