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
I had not seen another person for quite a while as I biked deeper into the hinterlands of the island, connecting to East End Light Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
You can still find reruns in cable’s hinterlands or purchase the series, but the public seems resolved to acknowledge its impact without revisiting episodes in full.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2025
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
Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
