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a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
people who live in the Australian outback tend to be self-sufficient
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Flinders Food Co This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe.
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Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
More than 540 million years ago, what is now South Australia’s outback was part of the continent’s thundering coastline.
—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
Like the other films, this one is set in the Australian outback, ravaged by apocalypse.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
The rock dating and magnetic analyses were elaborate, with fourteen weeks of sampling and camping in the Australian outback in 2013 and 2014, followed by years of lab work.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
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Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
More than 540 million years ago, what is now South Australia’s outback was part of the continent’s thundering coastline.
—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
Like the other films, this one is set in the Australian outback, ravaged by apocalypse.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024
The rock dating and magnetic analyses were elaborate, with fourteen weeks of sampling and camping in the Australian outback in 2013 and 2014, followed by years of lab work.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
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And during the Tuscany & Umbria Women’s Multi-Active experience, travelers navigate the Tuscan countryside and engage in delightful wine tastings, crostata cooking classes, and intimate castle dinners.Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2024
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Here’s what’s new in Milwaukee-area theaters starting Friday, as well as some of the new movies available on streaming and on demand this week. ‘Blitz’ Short version: In World War II London, a single mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her 9-year-old son (Elliott Heffernan) to the English countryside.Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
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Midtown Manhattan appears in vivid detail, with the rest of the country—Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles—a hazy expanse of rocks, bushes, and fields on the other side of the Hudson River.Frederick Hess, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Spread gauze on bushes to mimic cobwebs with creepy DIY spiders.Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Oct. 2024
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With new capabilities being added to AI systems at a steady rate—in October, frontier AI lab Anthropic introduced the ability for its model to directly control a computer, still in beta—the complexity of governing this technology will only increase.Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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This series in collaboration with the cast and crew has proven there is a hunger to explore new frontiers in an episodic format, where actors have freedom to challenge themselves and take risks.Nick Caruso, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
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Not every hike has to be in the hinterlands to feel iconic.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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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
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Emphasizing the health of individuals in a country where life expectancy is four years below the average of other nations must come first, above the health of the bottom line.Nick Thomas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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Syria has served as a primary logistical backbone for the organization to build its missile arsenal in its home country Lebanon.Mostafa Salem, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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Located between Silverton and Ouray, Campfire Ranch Red Mountain Pass is accessible during the winter via a half-mile backcountry over-snow approach.Margaret Jackson, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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Experts survey Indiana backcountry The 900-acre area IFA and scientists studied is one of the few places in Indiana that has been left relatively undisturbed for most of the last century, Rothrock told IndyStar.Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
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Just as Peter’s moving of his court transformed Moscow into a backwater for out-of-favor nobles, Carson’s helped to usher out the era when the Big Apple could claim to have cultural parity with Hollywood.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2024
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Their opposition is threatening to not only turn the U.S. into a technological backwater, but also to imperil our country’s status as the world’s only superpower.Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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