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as in village
a small place where people live that is far away from other towns or cities
They lived in a remote outpost high in the mountains.
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as in barracks
a military facility that is in another country or that is far from a country's center of activity
It took about a month for mail to reach the soldiers at the outpost.
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Recent Examples of outpost
The new outpost will be housed within Miami Design Residences Designed by Chipperfield, which is also the area’s debut residential development.
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Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2026
Further into downtown, hit home-décor outpost Roost, packed with the unique and handmade, from farmhouse tables and stoneware to paintings and other works by area artists.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
Construction began in 1998, and humans have maintained a continuous presence on the orbiting outpost since November 2000.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
After browsing at the Downtown vinyl outpost Needle to the Groove for interesting records Deniké will bring her finds to the Break Room for an hour-long listening session.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
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Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2026
Further into downtown, hit home-décor outpost Roost, packed with the unique and handmade, from farmhouse tables and stoneware to paintings and other works by area artists.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
Construction began in 1998, and humans have maintained a continuous presence on the orbiting outpost since November 2000.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
After browsing at the Downtown vinyl outpost Needle to the Groove for interesting records Deniké will bring her finds to the Break Room for an hour-long listening session.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpost
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The small, walkable village of Tubac is the ideal destination for a day trip or weekend getaway, one with dozens of unique galleries that embrace a sense of place in the Sonoran Desert.—
Molly Allen,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Camp East Montana looks like a pop-up village, with six long tents along a stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert outside El Paso at the Ft.—
Morgan Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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Another is the location of the school — next to a base of the Revolutionary Guard in Hormozgan province and close to a barracks for its naval brigade.—
Julia Frankel,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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If a settlement agreement is reached, that could pause a trial that started in New York last week and is slated to continue for several more weeks.—
Josh Sisco,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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The West Coast community was once the site of a gold-mining settlement—there's even a miner's cemetery there—but today it's prized for its golden sunsets.—
Madeline Bilis,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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Craig Proctor, the childhood friend who played Dungeons & Dragons with him, told me that Friedmann once showed him architectural floor plans for a citadel that Friedmann’s thief-rogue avatar would oversee.—
James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Jeremy Blake released a trilogy of animations about San Jose’s Winchester Mystery House, the Victorian citadel built by a gun heiress to keep out the ghosts of those killed with her rifles.—
Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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The town is essentially a sunny place, full of mostly sunny people, to all appearances, a typical comedy hamlet.—
Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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The hamlet has served as a backdrop for the Clintons' life after the White House.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
26 Feb. 2026
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Ryan will throw a bullpen session Saturday, then depart Twins camp to join Team USA.—
Johnny Flores Jr,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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That goes for basketball and football camps, too.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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And that’s why at the base of the structure is a looping opening meant to signify a half-open doorway.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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Another is the location of the school -- next to the Revolutionary Guard base and close to barracks for a naval unit.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Mar. 2026
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That happened shortly after a militia overran a military garrison near the Ethiopian border.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Troops departed the al Tanf garrison in southern Syria and the al Shaddadi base in the country's northeast earlier this year.—
Eleanor Watson,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Outpost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpost. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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