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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
Printemps has been without a CEO since Jean-Marc Bellaiche stepped down last September, less than six months after opening a splashy outpost in New York City.
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Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
In a ditch near a military outpost on Obeid’s periphery, an army engineer walked through a graveyard of RSF drones shot down in recent days.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
In the time since, Kim and his company, Gracious Hospitality Management, have taken Cote global, opening outposts in Miami, Singapore, and Las Vegas—and, as of April, in midtown.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
As with Venezuela, the United States sees Cuba as an unwelcome outpost of Russian and Chinese influence, not so much a Cold War relic as a current national-security threat sitting 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
—Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
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Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
In a ditch near a military outpost on Obeid’s periphery, an army engineer walked through a graveyard of RSF drones shot down in recent days.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
In the time since, Kim and his company, Gracious Hospitality Management, have taken Cote global, opening outposts in Miami, Singapore, and Las Vegas—and, as of April, in midtown.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
As with Venezuela, the United States sees Cuba as an unwelcome outpost of Russian and Chinese influence, not so much a Cold War relic as a current national-security threat sitting 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
—Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outpost
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That moniker comes from a violent 1967 peasant uprising against oppressive landlords in Naxalbari, a village in the shadow of the Himalayan foothills in northeast India.—
Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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Israel’s military issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen villages in southern Lebanon, a day after Lebanese and Israeli military officials held their first direct talks in decades at the Pentagon.—
Ahmad Mantash,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.—
Nicole Winfield,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Apr. 2026
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The explosions were blamed on the negligent handling of dynamite in a barracks close to residential areas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
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Further negotiations between Israel and Lebanon scheduled this week in Washington raised speculation that the two sides could reach a new ceasefire, which Iran has demanded as a precondition of any broader diplomatic settlement with the US.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
31 May 2026
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The Jewish refugees lived in the ghetto of the settlement.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
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Paton, 52, was in Peru with his wife to hike the Inca Trail, a popular route that ends at Machu Picchu, a citadel built by the Incas in the 15th century.—
Sam Peters,
CNN Money,
22 May 2026
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During the 25 years that consumed the back half of the 1950s and every bit of the 60s and 70s, Orange County shed the last remnants of its agrarian roots to become ground zero for that uniquely American citadel of consumption: The shopping mall.—
Byron De Arakal,
Oc Register,
3 May 2026
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Incorporated into the city in 1860, this former hamlet was the haunt of Molière and the literati, and later a hotbed of Art Nouveau residences by architect Hector Guimard (the creator of Paris’s iconic Métro entrances).—
Mary Winston Nicklin,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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And there are places that are called boroughs and districts and neighborhoods and towns and hamlets.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
30 May 2026
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No sweeping declarations should be made about the 2026 Packers over the next cluster of workouts and practices, but the next couple of weeks can perhaps provide a baseline of what to expect come training camp.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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The scale challenge is most acute in Bangladesh, home to Cox’s Bazar—the world’s largest refugee camp, housing more than one million Rohingya.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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The company’s shares are down 16% year to date as investors worry its businesses are being eaten up by competitors and that Copilot’s user base leaves a lot to be desired.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
2 June 2026
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Under its Artemis campaign, NASA plans to use a series of both uncrewed and human moon landings to construct a $20 billion moon base near the lunar south pole, where astronauts can live and work indefinitely.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
2 June 2026
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To bookend the experience, Kohler ultimately witnessed the surrender of a Japanese garrison in August 1945 after being deployed to the Marshall Islands Pacific campaign.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
24 May 2026
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It was founded in 1621 as a garrison against the marauding Danes.—
Laura Moser,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2026
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“Outpost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outpost. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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