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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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Recent Examples of outback
True to its name, this extraordinary conflict saw armed soldiers pitted against emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae), large flightless birds native to the Australian outback.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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
When the idea was initially conceived, under a full moon in Australia’s outback, the pair had planned to meet and get married in the middle.
—Stephy Chung, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
The night parrot—a brilliantly colored, nocturnal bird—once thrived in Australia’s outback.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
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
When the idea was initially conceived, under a full moon in Australia’s outback, the pair had planned to meet and get married in the middle.
—Stephy Chung, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
The night parrot—a brilliantly colored, nocturnal bird—once thrived in Australia’s outback.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
Noun
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Otherwise, there is not a great deal for miles around other than fields and countryside, cattle and birdsong and the occasional row of thatched cottages.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Radwan Alo fled his home in the countryside outside Qardaha, the hometown of the Assad family, and crossed the river into Lebanon.—
Hogir Abdo,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2025
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For example, summer offers bushes for hiding, while winter’s snow will crunch under your feet, potentially alerting enemies.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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It’s abandoned now and has fallen into disrepair, with broken slats on the wood steps and prickly bushes growing over the front porch.—
Melinda Newman,
Billboard,
4 Mar. 2025
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While most automakers have relegated AI to safety-system technology in current models, Mercedes' use of AI in the cabin is a new frontier for the North American market, especially for a vehicle on the lower end of a company's lineup.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2025
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Celebrity can be as alluring as royalty to someone who grew up eating gruel in the hinterlands, though such concepts must be imparted somehow.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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From obscurity to fame Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six mountain ranges above the Sichuan basin, deep in China’s hinterland.—
Nectar Gan,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.—
Pete Gannon,
Axios,
11 Mar. 2025
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Both countries are isolated by sanctions imposed by the West.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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The culture behind backcountry skiing in Salt Lake City expects it of you, and for good reason.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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Building large-scale developments in the fire-prone backcountry is the opposite of that.—
Emily Alvarenga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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The slow, tranquil sojourn along the lower Mekong River, cruising through rural Cambodia and Vietnam’s backwaters, felt more like being on a 19th-century yacht than a modern cruise liner.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
11 Mar. 2025
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These comprehensive trails span both Baldwin and Mobile counties, following the coastline, wetlands, and backwaters—all crucial stopover habitats for migratory birds.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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