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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
Hitachiya was originally established in 1956 in Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market and opened its American outpost in 2011.
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Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
Steiner Studios and the New York City Economic Development Corporation broke ground on an outpost in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and construction is underway on Sunset Pier 94 on the far West Side of midtown Manhattan.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Here, in the middle of British New York, and before that Dutch New Amsterdam, is where muskets were fired and the empire had its very last outpost in 1783, after the war ended.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
The outpost comes amid Salomon’s North America expansion, which includes a total of four brick-and-mortar shops with another shop expected to open by year’s end.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
Steiner Studios and the New York City Economic Development Corporation broke ground on an outpost in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and construction is underway on Sunset Pier 94 on the far West Side of midtown Manhattan.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Here, in the middle of British New York, and before that Dutch New Amsterdam, is where muskets were fired and the empire had its very last outpost in 1783, after the war ended.
—Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
The outpost comes amid Salomon’s North America expansion, which includes a total of four brick-and-mortar shops with another shop expected to open by year’s end.
—Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpost
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Every village has a place where young people and kids gather to have fun, and mostly, if there is a ball, the kids play football.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
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In 1940, the Oakland County suburb north of Detroit officially became a city, but more than a century later, the town has maintained its small-town village charm.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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When Texas experimented with a similar citizenship data review process in 2019, three federal lawsuits were filed, and three months in, the Texas secretary of state agreed to end the experiment as part of a settlement.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
21 Oct. 2025
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Nearly two dozen lawmakers in Netanyahu’s coalition signed a letter to Israel’s defense minister urging him to permit activists into Gaza itself to scout possible settlement locations.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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Others share the fear that a Trumpified Weiss is storming the citadel of objective journalism.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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The rest of the population lived as farmers outside the city, taking refuge inside a city citadel only in times of conflict.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
29 Sep. 2025
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Known as Mill Farm, the immensse estate sits in the tiny hamlet of Ancramdale, about 100 miles north of Manhattan.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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The officials decided to delay the town’s aboveground reconstruction and instead put all of their efforts into a regional underground school that would accommodate 450 students from 18 nearby hamlets.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Leeds United find themselves in the opposite camp, ranking bottom in big-chance conversion rate after converting just three of 17 such opportunities.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Our analysis of satellite imagery of Gaza shows that there are multiple open areas that were once agricultural, adjacent to cities, that would be candidates for this type of camp.—
Shelly Culbertson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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The tree came in a large rectangular shipping box in three unfluffed sections with a metal base, no bag or cover.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
20 Oct. 2025
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Great Again base, hoping that poor public opinion of the president’s agenda will drag Ciattarelli down.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
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Brooke devised the novel during her tenure as the expatriate wife of a chaplain stationed at a British garrison in Quebec.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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As in Boston, soldiers on garrison duty continued to drink, gamble, and fight.—
Time,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Balau Nath to erect the fort under the condition that the shadow of the fort must never cover Nath’s home.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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Dalton can hold the fort for a game, or two, as needed.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Outpost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpost. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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