backwater
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In 2020, he became sector chief for the El Centro region, a sleepy California stretch considered a backwater because so few immigrants attempt to cross illegally there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Ms. Allen concedes their regionalism but argues that they were wiser for understanding that a “provincial backwater offers as full a panoply of human folly, nobility, tragedy, and absurdity as any great metropolis.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Her persona is part space alien, part naïf of some Baltic backwater.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Decades of investment in infrastructure and training have taken China from a sporting backwater to a medal-winning machine that recently equalled the United States with 40 golds at the Paris Olympics.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
You could feel the rush of prison growth even in the forgotten backwater of Sing Sing, where the superintendent had said that getting money to build new and bigger vocational shops was his number-one priority.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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