hinterlands
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China sees its cities as engines of growth, not merely cash cows for rural hinterlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Philo subscribers can watch it on demand, and episodes can still be encountered on a hunt through the cable hinterlands.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
I had not seen another person for quite a while as I biked deeper into the hinterlands of the island, connecting to East End Light Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Acre is in the western Amazon, on Bolivia’s northern border, the hinterlands of the hinterlands.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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