hinterland
noun
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backcountry, backland(s), backwater, backwoods, bush, frontier, outback, outlands, up-country
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But that thinking from around a decade ago was eclipsed by the sense that waiting is often better; Broadway shows need time to build their brands in the hinterlands. — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, "Hot musical ‘Six’ rewrites Broadway playbook with fast return to Chicago," 2 Aug. 2019 With temperatures soaring as high as 104 degrees, Alaphilippe and his main rivals did not attack each other over the 110-mile mainly flat stage in the Nimes hinterland. — Name Goeshere, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston College’s A.J. Dillon, Ben Petrula named to All-ACC preseason team," 23 July 2019 The most dramatic story is that of Crystal, a Chinese American who enlists Langfitt’s help to track down her Chinese sister, Winnie, who has gone missing in the hinterlands of southwestern China. — Alec Ash, Washington Post, "A view of China, from the back — and front — seat of a cab," 11 July 2019 In Canary Wharf, London’s modern financial district, prices are down 8.3%, and at King’s Cross, where the industrial hinterland of a mainline station has been transformed into a new neighborhood, prices are down 5.2%. — Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, "British Contract Flippers Stymied by Faltering London Market," 13 June 2019 This is what people call cold cells with concrete floors, or the mobile-mini [detention sites] that are littered around the hinterlands of south and central Texas. — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, "Children Remain in Dangerous Conditions on the Texas Border," 25 June 2019 Choose your provider Providers: Restart Free Preview Expires in Sign In WEBBERS FALLS, Okla. - It is a tiny town in America’s hinterland that has almost been wiped off the map. — Fox News, "Forcibly evacuated and destroyed: a small Oklahoma town almost washed from the map in historic floods," 5 June 2019 Now consider that these hubs were once hinterland, mere fringes of an expanse rich in conifer forests, meadows, rivers and wetlands, all of it teeming with game. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, "Rising Seas Swallowed Countless Archaeological Sites. Scientists Want Them Back," 20 May 2019 Most of his book consists of engaging accounts of the explorers and scientists who have been drawn to Greenland’s hinterlands, among them the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen and the American Robert Peary. — David Holahan, USA TODAY, "'The Ice at the End of the World' review: Scary clues of climate change in Greenland," 11 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hinterland.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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