: the flat-floored bottom of an undrained desert basin that becomes at times a shallow lake
variant spelling of player sense f
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Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Burning Man is a weeklong end-of-summer bacchanalian arts festival that promotes radical self-expression and experimental community building, held annually on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2012
Meanwhile, dust storms swept over the playa, limiting visibility to a few feet and coating everyone with alkaline dust.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
The result is a barren playa, wide swaths of sand and earth.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2024
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Researchers have linked the dust that blows off the playa to the region’s abnormally high rates of childhood asthma.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Burning Man is a weeklong end-of-summer bacchanalian arts festival that promotes radical self-expression and experimental community building, held annually on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2012
Meanwhile, dust storms swept over the playa, limiting visibility to a few feet and coating everyone with alkaline dust.
—Alden Wicker, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2023
The result is a barren playa, wide swaths of sand and earth.
—Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Playa.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playa. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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