backwater
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Since seizing power as the kingdom’s de facto ruler in 2017, Mohammed has singularly pursued the goal of transforming the kingdom from a cultural and geopolitical backwater into a force on the world stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
America’s transformation during the 19th century from an agrarian backwater into a global power was captained by men who engaged in maneuvers that would be completely illegal today but weren’t at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025
The exact coordinates of this backwater are a bit hazy, but Storyteller 2 helpfully pinpoints the locale as “a place where being from somewhere is who you are.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025
But the proposed move has largely been perceived as banishing the journalist to a TV backwater where viewers and advertisers dollars are scant.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025
One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing backwater
Red Kayak
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This Week In Culture: October 19–25, 2019
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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