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
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
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
Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
