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
Users were able to comment on posts about the Australian outback incident by local news outlets.
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
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
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
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Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
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From Seoul to Dubai to wellness retreats tucked into the Italian countryside, beauty tourism has become a defining travel trend, with celebrities openly documenting trips built around facials, injectables, regenerative therapies and reset-style wellness stays.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2026
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About an hour west of Baltimore, where the city and suburban landscape gives way to Maryland’s rural countryside, visitors can find Fingerboard Farm, an historic landmark in Frederick County that once nurtured fruit orchards.—
William Deffaa,
Baltimore Sun,
14 May 2026
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Beautyberry bushes need pruning to maintain their shape and watering during dry periods.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
17 May 2026
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Outside there are plenty of fruit trees with pear, apple, peach, cherry and mulberry on the property as well as concord grapes and blueberry bushes.—
Kaitlyn Keegan,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2026
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Anthropic has reported roughly a 1 percent success rate against its internal Claude Cowork testing, the best public number from any frontier vendor.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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The Polish soldiers patrolling the frontier do not describe their mission in grand geopolitical terms.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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The film eliminated even a gesture toward a plot while showing solitary nonprofessional and real-life ranch-hand Misael Saavedra chopping and hauling logs in the Argentinian hinterlands (in actuality, Alonso’s family’s ranch).—
Vadim Rizov,
IndieWire,
16 May 2026
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Together, all of those developments deepened class and regional inequalities, as capital flowed away from workers in the industrial hinterland toward financial centers like New York.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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Beyond that lies the equestrian and agricultural country of Somerset County, including Moorland Farm, home of the annual Far Hills Race Meet horse race for more than 100 years.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Just 15 minutes east, is Vega, Texas – a small country town with sprinkles of Route 66 memorabilia.—
Chelsea Torres,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026
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Outfitters like Mills Wilderness Adventures lead multiday horseback journeys deep into the backcountry, complete with meals and camp setups, allowing travelers to experience this stunning, isolated place without the logistical heavy lifting.—
Taryn Shorr-Mckee,
Travel + Leisure,
17 May 2026
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This off-grid expedition behemoth is prepared to spend up to 2 full weeks at a time in the deep, dusty backcountry.—
C.C. Weiss
May 17,
New Atlas,
17 May 2026
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Even the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence boom were laid by the NSF in the 1980s and 1990s, when neural networks were a backwater dismissed by mainstream computer science.—
Gautam Mukunda,
Twin Cities,
14 May 2026
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For decades, seabed cartography was a scientific backwater.—
Natalie Sum Yue Chung,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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