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backwater

noun as in bayou

noun as in frontier

adjective as in back-country

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In the last decade, breakthroughs in our understanding of the aging process and promising early results from age reversal experiments in animals have dragged longevity research out of the academic backwaters and firmly into the mainstream.

Until the mid-20th century, these regions were the nation’s economic backwaters, “colonial” producers of raw materials that lagged far behind the rest of the nation in wealth and income.

After years in the backwaters of venture capital, edtech had a booming 2020.

It’s fair to say that microfluidics became a scientific backwater.

The trip was billed as a celebration of the policy change that set in motion Shenzhen’s extraordinary transformation from rural backwater to global manufacturing colossus.

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When you talk about midtown Manhattan as being a commercial backwater, I find it mind boggling.

They both think that Los Angeles, long maligned as a culinary backwater, is the best food city in America.

North Korea is an economic wreck and a technological backwater.

The president is likely headed to a bureaucratic backwater as his famed office is renovated.

In contrast, says Aftergood, “security has traditionally been a backwater that hires former military personnel and muscle men.”

The rugged pioneer community had become, I suddenly saw, a rural backwater.

Once swung out of that backwater they had been swept away, powerless to know where they went, to guess what was their destination.

At last only fourteen of the English were left alive and they got hopelessly penned in a backwater.

Why, you both look as you did that night the backwater of the South Fork came into our cabin.

The blue heron rose heavily from the backwater, and winged his slow flight high above the trees.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to backwater, such as: brook, creek, outlet, river, and stream.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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