the outback

noun

: the part of Australia that is far from cities and where few people live

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Sensing this once-great dynasty is in decline, the outback’s most powerful factions — rival cattle barons, desert gangsters, Indigenous elders and billionaire miners — move in for the kill. —

Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024 Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides underserved children the opportunity to learn through reading, stretches from the hills of Appalachia to the outback of Australia. —

Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2024 Such a water-intensive therapy is ill-suited to the outback, which contains some of the driest biomes in the world. —

Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024 Per the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, MacDonald — who grew up in the outback of Queensland — used a computerized voice to communicate before her death. —

Becca Longmire, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the outback