as in countryside
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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Recent Examples of outback
Almost all Australians live on the coast: the entire outback is home to less than five per cent of the population.
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Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
Unlike the frequent road crossings of the Appalachian Trail, PCT hikers spend their first month in the hot, dry, and surprisingly remote outback of Southern California.
—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2024
Flinders Food Co This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe.
—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
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Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2024
Unlike the frequent road crossings of the Appalachian Trail, PCT hikers spend their first month in the hot, dry, and surprisingly remote outback of Southern California.
—Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 18 July 2024
Flinders Food Co This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
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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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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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As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Glenn has been a big part of Lions’ coach Dan Campbell’s staff in their efforts to bring that awful franchise from the hinterlands.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 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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To access a plethora of mountainous backcountry trails, go east.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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The larger lakes can be busy with motorboat traffic, but the smaller interior lakes are linked by a series of marked canoe trails and backcountry campsites.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
21 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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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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