hinterlands
Example Sentences
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Her hinterlands are a series of specific places “that have largely slipped under the news agenda and yet are central to the main story.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Philo subscribers can watch it on demand, and episodes can still be encountered on a hunt through the cable hinterlands.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
She did offer this “major commitment”: The unhoused wouldn’t be moved to the hinterlands during the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
They sighted her in the narrows between the Isle of Cedars and the rugged hills of the Astapori hinterlands, just as the black priest Moqorro had said they would.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
