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Definition of outback
: isolated rural country especially of Australia
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Examples of outback in a Sentence
people who live in the Australian outback tend to be self-sufficient
Recent Examples of outback from the Web
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The red dirt of the surrounding outback made the 1,500-resident town seem more Mars than Earth.
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The red dirt of the surrounding outback makes the 1,500-resident town seem more Mars than Earth.
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In a recent foray into the Australian outback, Google’s amateur cartographers used a backpack to lug bulky camera equipment around Uluru, a popular tourist site also known as Ayers Rock.
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All of this happens against a surreal backdrop—a charming small town in the Australian outback where stylish people have gathered for a wedding.
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Starbuck wrote much of the collection as a 2016 climate change resident in poetry at Playa, an artists community in Summer Lake, in the Oregon outback.
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Though it's successfully shut the canines out, as Emma Marris reports for Nature, a new study suggests that this artificial barrier has altered the ecosystems of Australia’s outback.
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Citing safety issues, the venue postponed for a week the opening of the show about two drag queens and a trans woman performer who head to Australia’s outback.
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The Leftovers (9 p.m., HBO) – Kevin wanders the Australian outback in an effort to save the world from apocalypse.
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First Known Use of outback
1893
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