backwater
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Not long ago, China was a backwater for drug research.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Once viewed as an intellectual backwater, geroscience—the study of aging—is now at the frontier of biology, attracting funding and talent, inspiring new journals, and generating a flood of peer-reviewed research.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
It had about three houses, and right in the middle there was a sign over a building saying “Casino,” and it had a slot machine in, so it was a real American backwater.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
Decades of investment in infrastructure and training have taken China from a sporting backwater to a medal-winning machine that recently equalled the United States with 40 golds at the Paris Olympics.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
Compared with Oxford it was a backwater and, unlike Oxford, had not benefited from any intimate contact with the Greshamites.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing backwater
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