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Adjective
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Many urban police departments and some rural jurisdictions have started using them – including Lafayette police in Colorado.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026 -
In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's highway patrol on a rural road in southeast Alabama's Pike County when the crash occurred late Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email Sunday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Williams, whose studio is based in London, said for Spring-Summer 2026 she was inspired by the provincial clothes of factory workers, housekeepers and nurses.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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As party chief, Lam has led Vietnam’s biggest bureaucratic overhaul since the 1980s, cutting jobs, merging ministries, redrawing provincial boundaries and advancing major infrastructure projects.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Frances Quinlan Quinlan had planned to celebrate her 34th birthday in a backwoods cabin this week, before a Friday show in Ohio.—
Megan Spurrell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2020
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The potholes are worth it, however, for the great weekend of backwoods hiking and exploring .—
Stef Schrader,
Popular Mechanics,
25 Apr. 2020
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Captive in bucolic panopticons, their lives are at once aesthetically alluring, depressingly regressive and anthropologically fascinating.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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While Bag End—the tunnel-like home from Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings franchise—may provide bucolic solace for Frodo Baggins, played by actor Elijah Wood, the hobbit-hole digs are hardly suitable for humans.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2026
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Timed to coincide with Cactus League spring training, the countrified Innings Fest offshoot is in its third year, bringing 20 artists with no overlapping sets to two main stages.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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The look blended ornate embroidery with a Western spin, merging high fashion with Wilson’s countrified finesse.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
17 Nov. 2025
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Produced by Sofía Meza Herrera of Blue Paradox Films, the project is positioned as a potential multi-country co-production, with Panama attached and European partners in discussion.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2026
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The expansion broadens the company’s country coverage and operational capacity, reflecting a shift away from step-by-step market entry toward multi-country team building.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
Sacbee.com,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Backwoodsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backwoodsy. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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