outpost
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And Carnegie Mellon gets an outpost in the South, a region increasingly appealing to many college students, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Re-Oak California has an eighth nursery planned for Irvine, its first outpost in Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
We drove past an undeveloped beach—no facilities, just a handful of people taking a dip—and up to a viewpoint where there was a military outpost containing one soldier and his dog.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
They keep the outpost simple—a water trailer, solar panels, cheap building materials—to make replacing it easier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Two years later, Robben Island was without question the harshest, most iron-fisted outpost in the South African penal system.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
What we witnessed was part of a pattern being repeated day after day, as settler outposts here increase.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
He said his land was now surrounded by seven Jewish settlements and outposts.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The Israeli government’s mapping agency last month briefly released high-resolution, unblurred images on the internet of northern Gaza from 2025 that showed several Israeli military outposts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The "new generation" focused on building small illegal outposts and agricultural projects without permits from Israeli authorities -- a strategy known as "minimum people on maximum land".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Unless you have some magical knowledge about which watchtowers and outposts are active. Besides, if we enter from Ravka, we have to contend with Ravkans and Fjerdans.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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