as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
the colonies hugged the coastline, while the hinterland remained largely unexplored
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Recent Examples of hinterland
Not every hike has to be in the hinterlands to feel iconic.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
His time in Dylan’s home state, Chalamet says, reminded him of his visits to the French hinterlands.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
That a precondition of the interview was that Neistat would have to allow the footage to be used in a documentary Paul is making about his return from the hinterland is convenient, not to say lucrative.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2018
The artist was known for creating sculptures, often using leather and tree branches, to be exhibited for the benefit of a community living in the stark, desert-like conditions of the Bahia hinterlands.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
His time in Dylan’s home state, Chalamet says, reminded him of his visits to the French hinterlands.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
That a precondition of the interview was that Neistat would have to allow the footage to be used in a documentary Paul is making about his return from the hinterland is convenient, not to say lucrative.
—Chris Stokel-Walker, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2018
The artist was known for creating sculptures, often using leather and tree branches, to be exhibited for the benefit of a community living in the stark, desert-like conditions of the Bahia hinterlands.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for hinterland
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hinterland
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Set in 1973, Rabbit Trap stars Dev Patel and Rosy McEwen as Darcy and Daphne, an influential musical couple from London who retreats to an isolated cabin in the Welsh countryside to finish their next album.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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Constable renders the particulars of the 19th-century British countryside with dazzling care.—
Daniel Foster,
National Review,
23 Jan. 2025
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Look at nature and consider the fact that although bushfires destroy, there are certain bushes that only grow as a result of that bushfire.—
Simone Milasas,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The key is to ensure the plants and bushes aren't touching each other and the house, acting like a highway for the flames.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
17 Jan. 2025
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By 1997, when 84 countries signed the Kyoto Protocol to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the oil industry had built an effective apparatus for actively discrediting climate science and opposing policies and actions that could help slow climate change.—
Joe Árvai,
The Conversation,
22 Jan. 2025
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Experts expect more developments to come, such as travel bans and the termination of Temporary Protected Status protections for people from certain countries.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Why are the Ukrainians risking lives and resources on a comparatively meaningless action in a sector that’s a relative backwater, when critical Ukrainian strongpoints in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast are under relentless Russian assault?—
David Axe,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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But even as ties have grown in recent years, Washington’s foreign policy establishment still considers Africa to be a strategic backwater.—
Ken Opalo,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2024
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The researchers evaluated several multimodal frontier models, including Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet-3.5, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and both OpenAI’s GPT-4o and new reasoning model, o1.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
23 Jan. 2025
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By being able to compare these planetesimal belts around other stars with our own Edgeworth–Kuiper Belt, which is a frontier currently being explored by pioneers such as the New Horizons mission, astronomers can uncover the secrets that these frozen realms have kept hidden.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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True to its name, this extraordinary conflict saw armed soldiers pitted against emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae), large flightless birds native to the Australian outback.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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Watch on Hulu The Royal Hotel Ozark star Julia Garner reunites with director Kitty Green (The Assistant) for this taut psychological thriller in which BFFs Hanna (Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) decide to backpack their way through the Australian outback.—
Jennifer M. Wood,
WIRED,
7 Nov. 2024
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“Hinterland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinterland. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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