outpost
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Madrid had rushed security personnel and equipment to the North African outpost that it has run for centuries.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Southern Californian restaurateur Rafi Khan had a clear vision for a new food outpost on a 20-acre ranch he leased in Riverside County earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Residents of Parsons, a sleepy farming outpost, agree on many things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But one settler in a nearby outpost recently spoke to an Israeli documentary team about his work in a security squad.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Born in 1871 to a handyman and his wife in New Zealand when it was a remote outpost of the British Empire, Rutherford became an intuitive theorist and the preeminent experimental physicist of his age.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
And the Marines might struggle to get large numbers of FPV drones to isolated island outposts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"Since they will be limited by the few resources they brought from Earth, anything they find on the moon will help them basically live off the land, especially for longer-term missions or outposts."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
This road past their fields, increasingly overlooked by settler outposts, has become a gauntlet for farmers here, to be run at speed in vehicles without stopping or getting out.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Earlier this month, at one of its outposts in Manhattan, people were lining up outside in 92-degree heat before the store had even opened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
