outpost
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He enticed Arthur Vining Davis, who had started Alcoa with Hall, the Ohio inventor, and was interested in a smelting outpost to feed the booming U.S. market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 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
The Mestersvig outpost is remote, far less developed, and used by a Danish naval dog sled unit.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
After years of litigation and anticipation, Camarillo is getting its own Costco Wholesale outpost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Frightful and the ducks came to rest on Darwin Island, the last outpost before El Salvador, a thousand miles away.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Chevron poached him from TotalEnergies, the French oil company known for doing business in remote outposts where some U.S. companies have feared to tread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
In the last year, the grocer has opened in West Hollywood, Glendale and Thousand Oaks, with outposts in Costa Mesa and downtown Los Angeles locations planned for 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
What we witnessed was part of a pattern being repeated day after day, as settler outposts here increase.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
The "new generation" focused on building small illegal outposts and agricultural projects without permits from Israeli authorities -- a strategy known as "minimum people on maximum land".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
They made significant outposts in Brigham City, just twenty minutes from Trementon, at the base of the mountains, and in Logan, the region’s hub, which held a larger temple.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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