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backwoods

[bak-woodz] / ˈbækˈwʊdz /


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Rust Cohle slow dances with murmurings about Carcosa in Season 1, and the anthology’s creator Nic Pizzolatto spiced up the mystique by depositing backwoods fetishes near crime scenes.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

Mr. Blackstone, 56, began fighting fires during his college years when he worked as a backwoods ranger, often getting called in to help with forest fires.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Doing so doesn’t require traipsing into the backwoods of Louisiana listening for a double-knock call that may never come.

From Slate ● May 27, 2023

Dakota Adams - he and his mother now use her maiden name - spent much of his earliest years not in the backwoods of Montana, but in the middle of America's east coast power centres.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2022

She tells me to keep looking at them as they walk to the clearing in the backwoods.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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