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
Read Next World Armless creature with clawed toes found in Australian outback.
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Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
Finding escaped marsupials in the vast Australian outback may sound much harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Specifically, scientists mentioned the Sturt Stony Desert, an outback desert in South Australia, as a potential place to look.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
Taking readers on a high-octane journey through the Australian outback, the story centers on Harvey Buck, a former soldier racing against time to reach his dying girlfriend.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
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Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
Finding escaped marsupials in the vast Australian outback may sound much harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Specifically, scientists mentioned the Sturt Stony Desert, an outback desert in South Australia, as a potential place to look.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
Taking readers on a high-octane journey through the Australian outback, the story centers on Harvey Buck, a former soldier racing against time to reach his dying girlfriend.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
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Workers work in a Molfetta countryside in Italy, on October 24, 2024, during the olive harvest.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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Growing up in the countryside of Jamaica, holistic esthetician and founder of IN GROOV Shani Hillian watched her elders picking herbs from their garden for skin ailments.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 July 2025
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Only 12 original rose bushes remained when Melania oversaw the addition of 200 new ones.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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Other combinations are radishes under taller veggies, or planting bush beans around crops that are heavy feeders, which reduces weeds and adds extra nitrogen to the soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 July 2025
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Procurement, Deregulation, And Political Pushback The plan calls for updates to federal procurement rules to ensure that frontier models used by the government are free from top-down ideological bias and aligned with principles of free expression.—
Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Meanwhile, leaders will need to develop policies to share sensitive, proprietary information on developments in frontier AI with partners and allies.—
MATAN CHOREV,
Foreign Affairs,
22 July 2025
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One is that working class people from the American hinterlands simply lack the time, resources, and networks to gamble on a vocation with so little security.—
Lee Cole
June 17,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2025
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On the opposite shore of the lake, the Venetian denomination Bardolino DOC extends on the morainic hills of the hinterland.—
Elisabetta Tosi,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Three of the world’s most powerful Western nations have added their economic and geopolitical clout to calls for a Palestinian state, an idea already endorsed by more than 140 other countries.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN Money,
2 Aug. 2025
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The program will be attended by 63 up-and-coming film professionals, drawn from 17 countries.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
2 Aug. 2025
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All backcountry routes and canyoneering routes stemming from the North or South Kaibab, or Bright Angel Trail.—
Wren Smetana,
AZCentral.com,
18 July 2025
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All North Rim operations—including campgrounds, backcountry access, and trails such as the North Kaibab—are closed and will remain so for the rest of the 2025 season, per the National Park Service.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 July 2025
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Similarly, in Anhui Province in eastern China, the city of Hefei has transformed from a poor backwater into a crucial hub for the electric vehicle industry.—
Damien Ma,
Foreign Affairs,
1 July 2025
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The weather service said backwater flooding along the Little Miami, Great Miami and Licking rivers will also result in road closures.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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