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
Carolina Wilga, a German backpacker, was found alive after spending 12 days missing in the remote outback of Western Australia, according to local authorities.
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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
This mismatch in the data between the different antennas caused the blur, so to remove it, the researchers eliminated the signal coming from the outer antennas to favor only the inner part of the telescope, which is spread out over about 2.3 square miles in the Australian outback.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
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
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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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
This mismatch in the data between the different antennas caused the blur, so to remove it, the researchers eliminated the signal coming from the outer antennas to favor only the inner part of the telescope, which is spread out over about 2.3 square miles in the Australian outback.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
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On highways and surface roads in the rural countryside west of Detroit, the 2025 Ford Explorer was smooth and quiet, with plenty of power for highway acceleration.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Forty-five minutes later, the racetrack appears almost without warning — coiled like a basking viper in the Tuscan countryside.—
Jonathan Hawkins,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Messages Robinson is believed to have sent on Discord stated a need to retrieve a rifle from a pick-up point, leaving the rifle in a bush, watching the area where a rifle was left and having wrapped the rifle in a towel, according to the affidavit.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Jurors saw some wobbling footage that appeared to be taken from inside a bush, though prosecutors did not explicitly make clear if the footage was taken from Routh's perch.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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The next frontier is Agentic AI, which Gao sees not as an experiment but as a necessity for keeping pace with youth culture.—
Jamie Gutfreund,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Cupcake icing and sports drinks — in all their crayon-like colors — are the final frontiers for Nick Scheidler's team.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
24 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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Neural highways that once buzzed with activity are becoming quiet country roads, rarely traveled and slowly overgrown.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This administration is trying to thrust our country into turmoil in order to reap power for themselves.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The inland 48th Congressional District, which stretches from Temecula through some San Diego County suburbs and the backcountry, is one of the key districts the state’s Democrats hope to flip with redistricting.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Sep. 2025
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What Wild Land packages standard with the Sky Rover is the type of simple urinal bag backpackers and other backcountry adventurers often carry.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Sep. 2025
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Walmart’s growth, coupled with investments from Walton and her family, has turned this former backwater into a heartland hotspot, known for mountain biking trails, a thriving art scene, and one of the country’s fastest-growing populations.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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There are endless shallow backwaters along the river to explore and there’s plenty of big water out there, too (Lake Winnieshek, for example, is almost two miles wide in places).—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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