Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A large desert occupying most of the interior of the Arabian Peninsula and extending north into Jordan and Iraq.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia
- noun a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea
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Examples
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The researchers speculated that changes in ancient climate, as glaciers receded and the Arabian Desert briefly bloomed, may have spurred these first waves of human migration, rather than advances in the technology of tools.
New Study Redraws Early Path of Humans Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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PALCA: The point here is if you want to build a waterpark in Alaska or a ski slope in the Arabian Desert, you can do it.
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PALCA: The point here is if you want to build a waterpark in Alaska or a ski slope in the Arabian Desert, you can do it.
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Bechtel Group built pipelines across the Arabian Desert and the Canadian Rockies, oil platforms in the North Sea, and the Channel Tunnel.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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PALCA: The point here is if you want to build a waterpark in Alaska or a ski slope in the Arabian Desert, you can do it.
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It leads to flamboyant extremes like Dubai's giant indoor ski resort smack dab in the middle of the sweltering Arabian Desert.
Man is the Measure of All Things Gregory Unruh 2010
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It leads to flamboyant extremes like Dubai's giant indoor ski resort smack dab in the middle of the sweltering Arabian Desert.
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PALCA: The point here is if you want to build a waterpark in Alaska or a ski slope in the Arabian Desert, you can do it.
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I remember looking for him at the end of an 18-hour day in which we flew from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Prince Sultan Air Base in the Arabian Desert and then on to the deck of the aircraft carrier Lincoln in the Persian Gulf.
Scott Lilly: Looking for the Full Measure of Jack Murtha 2010
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PALCA: The point here is if you want to build a waterpark in Alaska or a ski slope in the Arabian Desert, you can do it.
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