as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
they purposely vacationed in the backlands to get away from people
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Noun
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Save everything possible in the houses and the countryside; bury possessions and harvest.—
Ann Goldstein,
New Yorker,
25 May 2025 -
Piani’s French-English production basks in the Austen milieu but tweaks things, including the lovely English countryside.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Which windows are riskiest Some windows are much worse than others, depending on their proximity to bushes and other bird habitats, what is reflected in them, and how interior lighting exacerbates or diminishes the mirror effect.—
Jason Hoeksema,
The Conversation,
21 May 2025
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Footage from the area also shows Barker discarding the knife in nearby bushes, according to police.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
20 May 2025
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But Census data indicate that the region’s eastern hinterlands are growing at a faster click.—
Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2025
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Like those hinterland émigrés cobbling together a revue at a boîte, Encores!—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Euro country bond yields were last lower after the fresh inflation data, with the German 10-year bond yield falling by over two basis points to 2.499%, while the yield on the French 10-year bond was last down by more than one basis point to 3.169%.—
Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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By creating a single market for goods and services across 54 countries, AfCFTA improves the ease of doing business and increases cross-border opportunities.—
Tim Clark,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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As search after search came up dry, mathematicians eventually ran out of steam, and the problem became a backwater.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
5 May 2025
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The folksy 72-year-old Louisianan has been training horses since 1991 and has had success, but mostly with cheap horses running for small prizes in racing’s backwaters.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
4 May 2025
Noun
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Bots paying other bots are a new frontier for the payments industry that needs new rails.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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Longevity Lifestyle Coaches Matt Britton, CEO of Suzy and a leading AI and consumer trend expert advising Fortune 500 brands, sees health as a frontier for job creation.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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In northeastern Australia, more than a year’s worth of rain fell in just one week in March, kicking off rare flooding and a massive transformation throughout the country’s arid outback.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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But now, gin’s gone global, with new flavors popping up everywhere, from the Aussie outback to the U.S. West Coast.—
Noel Burgess,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Backlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backlands. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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