heartland
Example Sentences
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Job losses were most acute in Ontario, the country’s industrial heartland and home to the bulk of the automotive industry.
It's a project long pushed for by Canada's oil heartland but one which faces significant hurdles.
From BBC
The party lost swathes of its Midlands and northern English heartlands too, in 2019, only to win them back in 2024.
From BBC
The community is otherwise mostly present across their coastal heartland in Latakia and Tartus provinces.
From Barron's
The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
