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
The blood-pumping thriller starts with a man and his young son arriving at a rave in the Moroccan outback looking for their daughter/sister.
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
As night settled across the Australian outback, a rare bird emerged from its hiding place and moved across the ground.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The event took competitors on a 3,000-kilometer (around 1,864-mile) journey across the Australian outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
As night settled across the Australian outback, a rare bird emerged from its hiding place and moved across the ground.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The event took competitors on a 3,000-kilometer (around 1,864-mile) journey across the Australian outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
Noun
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This 1830s-era home on the property of Pickett Hill Farm is quintessential countryside.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
19 Mar. 2026
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Maiduguri has been at the heart of deadly violence in Nigeria in the past, but has experienced relative peace in recent years, even as the countryside is often battered by extremists.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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My hibiscus bush lost all its leaves during the cold.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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While her skin-tight gold Gucci gown caused all the right commotion, the reality TV star missed her mark and fell into a bush while heading into the ultra-exclusive Vanity Fair soirée in Los Angeles.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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Hottovy and Kelly both believe the baseball industry hasn’t fully dug into is eye-tracking and brain-processing, making that the next frontier.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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Hark back, for instance, to Austin’s miserable decades as a frontier outpost with few creature comforts before the Civil War.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
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Orlando was considered the hinterlands.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2026
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Expertise was often distributed between cities and their hinterlands, with cities functioning as hubs in cross-continental product networks.—
R. Alexander Bentley,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
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Umerov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defense council, visited the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan in the past week and said the drone defenses were deployed in those countries.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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In a telephone interview with Kyodo News on Friday, Araghchi denied closing the passageway, insisting instead that countries attacking Iran face restrictions, while others were being offered assistance.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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The biggest red flag for backcountry travelers is rapidly softening snow.—
Callie Zanandrie,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Remarkably, Wilderness Travel is one of just a handful of companies offering backcountry excursions here.—
The Editors,
Outside,
18 Mar. 2026
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At that time, in the 1920s, France was really a backwater in theoretical physics.—
Tim Folger,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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But Dublin was a European backwater then.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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