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Adjective
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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 -
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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The sun was getting ready to rise over a rural lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, when a sheriff's deputy shined his flashlight inside Ryan Borgwardt's minivan parked just yards away from the water's edge.—
Jared Kofsky,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Reversing the Roadless Rule would slam the door shut on those local, often rural businesses that rely on recreation visitors only to roll out the red carpet to mining, timber corporations and the fossil fuel industry.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
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Its twanging guitars and pounding drums scan as countrified classic rock, but every element seems muffled, as if emanating from an iPhone lost in a couch.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
26 July 2025
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Riverfront Stage: Georgia native Gavin Adcock (June 5, 3:10 p.m.) is a hard-living countrified rock favorite gaining in streaming renown.—
Joyce Orlando,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 June 2025
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From romantic florals to elegant damasks and bucolic toile scenes, old-world wallpaper is making a grand and graceful return.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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Visitors who can’t get enough of the Botanic Garden’s bucolic vibe can stroll from there to the Water of Leith Walkway.—
Jeanine Barone,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Backwoodsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backwoodsy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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