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hinterlands

NOUN
backcountry
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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

His involvement snowballed and Mr Diriye soon found himself navigating from the porous frontier with Ethiopia through Somalia’s rural hinterlands.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024

“Your hinterlands are not precious to me. Your person is. Should any ill befall you, this world would lose its savor.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin


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