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
PARSONS, Kan.—Residents of this sleepy farming outpost agree on many things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Sixty-two miles east of Tuskegee is the rural outpost of Eufaula, where pickup trucks haul fishing boats to the muddy banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
At noon George had left his outpost and gone down to the Quarter to get the packages from Miss Lee.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
In the past few months, it’s opened outposts in Miami and Dallas/Fort Worth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
When I asked McCleary about what those internal conversations were like, he reiterated that the company lets general managers take the reins on events at its many official national outposts.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
His family’s biggest extravagance was a trip to Applebee’s, the American chain restaurant that once had outposts in the Netherlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
White had no doubt what would happen if he didn’t succeed: previous agents on the case had been banished to distant outposts or cast out from the bureau entirely.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
