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
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.
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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
The event took competitors on a 3,000-kilometer (around 1,864-mile) journey across the Australian outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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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
The event took competitors on a 3,000-kilometer (around 1,864-mile) journey across the Australian outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
Noun
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Hungary lives in the countryside—only eight cities have a population exceeding a hundred thousand people—and that is where Magyar concentrated his attention.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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Now legions of bright-eyed radical youths were exiled to the countryside to learn from the peasants.—
Michael Sheridan,
Vanity Fair,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Blueberry wallpaper was placed in master bathroom as an homage to the blueberry bushes outside their home.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
12 Apr. 2026
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Along with the daffodil patch, Shickasheen also has a gift shop, a tool shed and a garden center with annuals, perennials, shrubs and bushes available for purchase.—
Catherine Messier,
The Providence Journal,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The rooms Rooms in a Four Seasons are never going to push back the frontiers of interior decor.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Apr. 2026
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If critical minerals are the foundation of the energy transition, AI infrastructure is the next frontier of competition.—
Pandu Sjahrir,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Moreover, as soon as Christianity began to spread outside his native land, Christian converts faced new situations in unexpected contexts, completely different from those of their founder, an itinerant Jewish preacher in the sparsely populated hinterlands of rural Galilee.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
26 Mar. 2026
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Scattered across the continent were hundreds of towns populated by a few hundred people, and each of these towns had an economic hinterland of perhaps 50 to 100 square miles, with the bulk of all agricultural and household production produced and remaining in that area.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Perhaps as a result, various European countries had introduced academic programs in the new field of music geragogy—the study of music-learning in old age.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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Plus, targets in countries where people generally make lower incomes may be less likely to turn down job offers.—
Jessica Klein,
PC Magazine,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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To access a plethora of mountainous backcountry trails, go east.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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When two campers in the Colorado backcountry thought they were being stalked by a mountain lion last week, Clear Creek County deputies decided to mount a rescue themselves.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Gold transformed Victoria from a pastoral backwater into the most celebrated colony of the empire.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
19 Mar. 2026
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At that time, in the 1920s, France was really a backwater in theoretical physics.—
Tim Folger,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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