hinterlands
Example Sentences
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Her hinterlands are a series of specific places “that have largely slipped under the news agenda and yet are central to the main story.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
You can still find reruns in cable’s hinterlands or purchase the series, but the public seems resolved to acknowledge its impact without revisiting episodes in full.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 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
Some of that derives from the fact that Saba narrates in the present tense as he conducts his search through Georgia’s towns and hinterlands, giving the novel some forward thrust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Acre is in the western Amazon, on Bolivia’s northern border, the hinterlands of the hinterlands.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
