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outpost

[aut-pohst] / ˈaʊtˌpoʊst /
NOUN
remote station
Synonyms


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Adenot completed three spacewalks while also becoming the first French woman to venture outside the orbital outpost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

And Carnegie Mellon gets an outpost in the South, a region increasingly appealing to many college students, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The Mestersvig outpost is remote, far less developed, and used by a Danish naval dog sled unit.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

We drove past an undeveloped beach—no facilities, just a handful of people taking a dip—and up to a viewpoint where there was a military outpost containing one soldier and his dog.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

That night, Major Tallmadge happened to be at another nearby American outpost.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

He said his land was now surrounded by seven Jewish settlements and outposts.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

What we witnessed was part of a pattern being repeated day after day, as settler outposts here increase.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Such troops are much less likely than regular soldiers to dismantle illegal outposts, experts say.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The "new generation" focused on building small illegal outposts and agricultural projects without permits from Israeli authorities -- a strategy known as "minimum people on maximum land".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

It softly lit both the little villages of Elfland and the mountain outposts of the goblins, as if the whole world were at peace.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin


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