backwater
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Query why emoluments get the backhand, and this clause is sort of forgotten and maybe implicitly deemed as this backwater.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 1877, he got to Los Angeles, then a 10,000-person backwater, and began working for the water company as a zanjero, or ditch-digger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
That should alarm you even if you never fly beer to a dry village, because forfeiture in America is not a procedural backwater.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
From a forgotten match in deepest Brazil to the arrival of global superstars on American shores, the U.S. has grown from soccer backwater into host of the biggest World Cup in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing backwater
Red Kayak
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This Week In Culture: October 19–25, 2019
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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