as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
built a cabin in the up-country
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for up-country
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Kelly Clarkson Home Kat Farmhouse Storage Ottoman Add storage space with this French countryside ottoman from Kelly Clarkson Home.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
9 Oct. 2025 -
Facing physical puzzles along the way, each episode sees the teams navigate varied landscapes, from narrow city streets to rivers and countryside meadows.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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And only three of those countries are members of NATO.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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At least since 1800, when Parson Weems published his Life of Washington, biography has been the medium through which most Americans have understood the birth of their country.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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But in the post-Grand Slam hinterland, with many top players resting, there are always opportunities for players on the rise.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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But in 2007, Israeli intelligence serendipitously stumbled on evidence of a Syrian nuclear reactor—a miniature replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon facility—that was housed in a nondescript, aboveground complex in the hinterland near the Euphrates River.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
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And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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The Rose Garden at MCC offers a beautiful display of around 9,000 rose bushes right outside the Mesa Community College building.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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About 15 drones were spotted flying over eastern Belgium's Elsenborn military training area, a NATO base in the Liège province near the German frontier, the Brussels Signal media outlet reported.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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With Tinker’s launch, Thinking Machines Lab is betting that the next frontier in AI lies not in building ever-larger models, but in democratizing access to advanced capabilities through fine-tuning tools.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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Unlike Bacalar, which is relatively new to tourism, Tulum has been transformed from a sleepy backwater into a pumping party town.—
Simon Willis,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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Even so, Nazareth was far from an isolated backwater village.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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While locations like a solar panel farm in the Australian outback fit the bill for near-future ground war, the result mostly feels sterile, amounting to a bunch of empty pathways bathed in stark daylight.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Up-country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/up-country. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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