backwater
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Ms. Allen concedes their regionalism but argues that they were wiser for understanding that a “provincial backwater offers as full a panoply of human folly, nobility, tragedy, and absurdity as any great metropolis.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
By 2001 the paper profits pushed Ireland’s gross domestic product per capita ahead of Britain’s, fed a housing boom, and turned Dublin from a dirty backwater into a glossy tourist hub.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 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
Olympics, but Southern California — which did not have a Russian Consulate — was considered a backwater in the Cold War spy game.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
Compared with Oxford it was a backwater and, unlike Oxford, had not benefited from any intimate contact with the Greshamites.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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