outpost
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Adenot completed three spacewalks while also becoming the first French woman to venture outside the orbital outpost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
And Carnegie Mellon gets an outpost in the South, a region increasingly appealing to many college students, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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
The road angles down the steep hill and into a tiny town, the last outpost of civilization before the mount.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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He said his land was now surrounded by seven Jewish settlements and outposts.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
What we witnessed was part of a pattern being repeated day after day, as settler outposts here increase.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mikhmas is located in the central West Bank between Ramallah and Jerusalem, near several Israeli settlement outposts whose residents have attacked the community on several occasions in recent months.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Godin said that the outposts take several months to build and follow a similar rectangular layout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
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