as in countryside
a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country
people who live in the Australian outback tend to be self-sufficient
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Recent Examples of outback
Carolina Wilga, a German backpacker, was found alive after spending 12 days missing in the remote outback of Western Australia, according to local authorities.
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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
This mismatch in the data between the different antennas caused the blur, so to remove it, the researchers eliminated the signal coming from the outer antennas to favor only the inner part of the telescope, which is spread out over about 2.3 square miles in the Australian outback.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
In northeastern Australia, more than a year’s worth of rain fell in just one week in March, kicking off rare flooding and a massive transformation throughout the country’s arid outback.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
But now, gin’s gone global, with new flavors popping up everywhere, from the Aussie outback to the U.S. West Coast.
—Noel Burgess, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
This mismatch in the data between the different antennas caused the blur, so to remove it, the researchers eliminated the signal coming from the outer antennas to favor only the inner part of the telescope, which is spread out over about 2.3 square miles in the Australian outback.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
In northeastern Australia, more than a year’s worth of rain fell in just one week in March, kicking off rare flooding and a massive transformation throughout the country’s arid outback.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
But now, gin’s gone global, with new flavors popping up everywhere, from the Aussie outback to the U.S. West Coast.
—Noel Burgess, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outback
Noun
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Races take place over weeks, and hundreds of miles of countryside.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Raised in the French countryside, where fields of linen bloom each spring, the artist also spent time on the island of Oléron.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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But while Narula initially wanted to keep the grass, Kemp replaced the bushes with woody perennials ‒ red osier dogwoods, a spicebush, sweet pepper bushes, as well as smooth-leaf hydrangeas.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Walkers can take in the staggered plots of orange groves and prickly pear bushes in Marsalforn Valley or soak up the quiet back streets of Gharb, the island’s westernmost town, overlooking Dwerja.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
28 Aug. 2025
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The next frontier is Agentic AI, which Gao sees not as an experiment but as a necessity for keeping pace with youth culture.—
Jamie Gutfreund,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Cupcake icing and sports drinks — in all their crayon-like colors — are the final frontiers for Nick Scheidler's team.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
8 Sep. 2025
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That doesn’t mean Disney and Pixar are waving the white flag of surrender and banishing original storytelling to the hinterlands.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
24 June 2025
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On the opposite shore of the lake, the Venetian denomination Bardolino DOC extends on the morainic hills of the hinterland.—
Elisabetta Tosi,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for foreign fighters to join his country’s International Legion, which supplements the army’s ranks to counter Russia’s incursion.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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Dryden also represented his country several times, most notably helping Team Canada defeat the Soviet Union in the 1972 Summit Series.—
Jesse Granger,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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Their explorations will include speaking with conservationists, tracking wolverines in the rugged North American backcountry, examining Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and more.—
Giana Levy,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Primitive roads there allow people to drive into the backcountry to experience solitude without hiking.—
Jeffrey C. Hallo,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
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There are endless shallow backwaters along the river to explore and there’s plenty of big water out there, too (Lake Winnieshek, for example, is almost two miles wide in places).—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
6 Aug. 2025
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Vigilant doctors and public health experts in charge of government policy mostly kept the anti-vaxxers relegated to the darker corners of medical discussion, and later to the backwaters of social media.—
Matt Robison,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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“Outback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outback. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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