heartland
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Together, the evidence points toward potters who migrated from the Mississippian heartland and brought both their technical knowledge and materials with them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Brazil’s booming agribusiness sector, fueled by soaring Chinese demand for Brazilian soybeans, beef and other commodities, has also given greater economic and political clout to the country’s conservative farming heartland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Attacks on the Houthis have also spread across Yemen, including to the Saada region, the group's northern heartland.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Houthis, whose heartland is among Yemen's Zaidi Muslims in the country's north, seized the capital Sanaa in 2014 at the outset of the civil war, driving the government to Aden in the south.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
About a century before our imaginary surveillance tour, though, the Maya heartland entered a kind of Dark Ages.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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From villages deep in the Amazon rainforest to the agricultural heartlands in the south and sprawling urban favelas, Brazilians are facing a familiar cast -- with many forced to pick who they least dislike.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
So for nearly 170 miles, the greatest cyclists from the sport’s heartlands duked it out around the roads of Quebec.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The French president is also eager for Sharaa to maintain his pledge to protect Syria's minorities, after sectarian bloodshed in its Alawite and Druze heartlands last year.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Reform UK has been picking up seats in former Labour heartlands in the north of England and the Midlands, including Wigan, Bolton, Salford and Halton.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
He traveled across the country, including to Hungary’s traditionally Fidesz-friendly heartlands where few of Orbán’s challengers had ever gone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
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