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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In his view, that’s pushing developers out further into the countryside in search of cheaper land.—
Mark Dee
March 12,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Mar. 2026
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Wine lovers will feel particularly at home thanks to more than 100 wineries and tasting rooms scattered throughout town and the surrounding countryside.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The plant to which Savolainen refers is yellow bush penstemon (Keckiella antirrhinoides).—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
14 Mar. 2026
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An adjacent patio with a large table sits next to a low wall with hydrangea bushes overlooking the pool.—
Megan Johnson,
Architectural Digest,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Approximately 2,000 years ago, the Antonine Wall divided Scotland into two as the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, stretching about 37 miles long.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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The next frontier isn’t digital intelligence that can describe the world.—
Vivek Ranadive,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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Orlando was considered the hinterlands.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Mar. 2026
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Expertise was often distributed between cities and their hinterlands, with cities functioning as hubs in cross-continental product networks.—
R. Alexander Bentley,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The workers in Mississippi often voice the same complaints that many South Africans have about their country, such as its sluggish economy and widespread crime.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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His vow to keep up attacks on other Arab countries in the region and plans to choke off the world's oil supply were headlines.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
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James Edward Mills is an aspiring mountaineer with a special interest in backcountry and lift service telemark skiing.—
James Edward Mills,
Outside,
15 Mar. 2026
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Choose from backcountry fishing, reef fishing, offshore fishing, or swordfishing, and be prepared for the freshest seafood dinner of your life.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2026
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Saturated in the heatwave colors of Australia’s scorching Red Center, with its searing blue skies and bright orange sands, Wolfram makes the grim, lawless backwater of Wake in Fright seem positively cosmopolitan by comparison.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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In the hockey world, the borough would go from backwater to mecca.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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