as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
he took a month's supplies and headed out to the backcountry
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Recent Examples of backcountry
Tennessee Pass Cookhouse Located in the nearby Ski Cooper area, this is a one-of-a-kind, backcountry dining experience.
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Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
This backcountry-style experience is a hike-to salmagundi of steep, open faces and chutes that holds pristine powder for days after a storm.
—Charles Curkin, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
For dinner, the Inn at Tres Pinos is a friendly roadside stop for eclectic, high-end gastronomy in the backcountry.
—AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
The wintry conditions will impact hunters and those in the backcountry.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
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Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025
This backcountry-style experience is a hike-to salmagundi of steep, open faces and chutes that holds pristine powder for days after a storm.
—Charles Curkin, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
For dinner, the Inn at Tres Pinos is a friendly roadside stop for eclectic, high-end gastronomy in the backcountry.
—AFAR Media, 24 Oct. 2025
The wintry conditions will impact hunters and those in the backcountry.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backcountry
Noun
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Young Ofelia and her pregnant mother have been brought to live in the countryside, where her brutal stepfather Captain Vidal’s job is to wipe out the remaining rebels camped in the local forest.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The concept is to reinterpret the cuisine of Brazil’s countryside, with a focus on pork, chicken, corn, and local ingredients, served in a space that feels like a casual boteco (bar), but with impeccable service.—
Jade Moyano,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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Australia’s hypersonic ambition Hypersonic flight, defined as speeds exceeding Mach 5, has become one of the most strategically important frontiers in aerospace and defense.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Expansion into new regions is accelerating biofuel projects in Thailand, Africa, Canada, and Australia, which represent the next frontier.—
Sixteen Ramos,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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His body was behind some bushes near the back patio of an apartment, police said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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Since 'Barbra’s Baby' is a new cultivar, there just aren’t that many of these rose bushes available.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Nov. 2025
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While locations like a solar panel farm in the Australian outback fit the bill for near-future ground war, the result mostly feels sterile, amounting to a bunch of empty pathways bathed in stark daylight.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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Women from 130 countries are participating in this year’s edition, which concludes on November 21 with the crowning of the winner.—
Anabella González,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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With trials underway in multiple countries, electric roads are now drawing global attention.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Unlike Bacalar, which is relatively new to tourism, Tulum has been transformed from a sleepy backwater into a pumping party town.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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But in the post-Grand Slam hinterland, with many top players resting, there are always opportunities for players on the rise.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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But in 2007, Israeli intelligence serendipitously stumbled on evidence of a Syrian nuclear reactor—a miniature replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon facility—that was housed in a nondescript, aboveground complex in the hinterland near the Euphrates River.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Backcountry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backcountry. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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