outpost
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Over the last decade, Namgyal and Higdon have created a small Himalayan outpost here, one based on hard work, mutual respect and above all, a devotion to yaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Madrid had rushed security personnel and equipment to the North African outpost that it has run for centuries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Residents of Parsons, a sleepy farming outpost, agree on many things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Back then, Folger says, the rural western outpost was filled with "back-to-the-land hippies, college students, cowboys and ski bums".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Only Titans would see such a beautiful place as a potential outpost of the abyss—a hellish home away from home.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
"Since they will be limited by the few resources they brought from Earth, anything they find on the moon will help them basically live off the land, especially for longer-term missions or outposts."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The group says 185 new Jewish outposts were built during the same period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The military has also built dozens of bases, outposts and staging areas behind the barrier along the Yellow Line.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Earlier this month, at one of its outposts in Manhattan, people were lining up outside in 92-degree heat before the store had even opened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
In the western outposts of the Elmuthaleth—Alkonost and others—they watched for the heat-distorted silhouettes of camel trains to emerge from the emptiness as they always had, but they did not.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
