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hinterlands

noun as in backcountry

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It lacked a cohesive programming identity and existed within the same hazy hinterlands as IFC.

Today, an impenetrable ring of settlements isolates East Jerusalem from its Palestinian hinterlands.

They have taken over several small cities and seem to run rampant in the hinterlands.

Jews found a profitable niche as middlemen between farmers in the hinterlands and large export firms in the port.

James Patterson—I mean, Zeus—frequents a sex club in the Virginia hinterlands.

To be more precise, by the mental hinterlands of three or four thousand individuals.

Across her mind flashed a vivid picture of the journey, pregnant with adventure, across the wild hinterlands—they two together.

The land rises steadily from the sea as you get into the Hinterlands, and the mountain ranges run parallel to the sea.

Their natural pretensions to the hinterlands have been grievously curtailed, and what ought to have been British is now French.

In one sense it was purely maritime, as its posts were all on the Bay shore, while the French traded chiefly in the hinterlands.

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

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