Definitions
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- noun An
area which abounds indust and which is verydry . - noun The central region of the
United States during the 1930s. - noun The 1930s period.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Central Valley, currently a dustbowl, is home to over 1.8 million Hispanics, many of whom have worked in California's once vibrant agricultural sector.
Mario H. Lopez: Latinos and the California Senate Race Mario H. Lopez 2010
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The Central Valley, currently a dustbowl, is home to over 1.8 million Hispanics, many of whom have worked in California's once vibrant agricultural sector.
Mario H. Lopez: Latinos and the California Senate Race Mario H. Lopez 2010
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The Central Valley, currently a dustbowl, is home to over 1.8 million Hispanics, many of whom have worked in California's once vibrant agricultural sector.
Mario H. Lopez: Latinos and the California Senate Race Mario H. Lopez 2010
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Gonave (37 miles by 19 miles) has been described as a dustbowl, and receives the highest amount of remittances in the world.
Archive 2007-11-01 Kate Fleurange 2007
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Gonave 37 miles by 19 miles has been described as a dustbowl, and receives the highest amount of remittances in the world.
Byenvini en Haiti Kate Fleurange 2007
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Water boarding would be welcome vs a summer in the "dustbowl".
Senate leaves for break without finalizing Army leadership 2009
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While the effect on measured global warming is said to be a minor but not insignificant minus 1-2 per cent of warming the adjustment at a stroke reveals the heat of the "dustbowl" 1930s and makes contemporary runaway global warming vanish from US-based temperature history.
Global warming "vanishes" from US temperature record after NASA corrects data 2007
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-- The creation of a "dustbowl" as the expropriated stands would recently have been bulldozed;
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She'd come from Oregon originally after her family had migrated there during the dustbowl from somewhere in the South.
the snake charmer Jerry Ratch 2011
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Marcus Connelly is wandering across the great dustbowl that is America with a thirst for revenge.
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