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frontier

[fruhn-teer, fron-, fruhn-teer] / frʌnˈtɪər, frɒn-, ˈfrʌn tɪər /




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"The cultural conversation they were having in 2019 about identity, queerness, mental health, is now the conversation everyone is having everywhere, so the show no longer feels like a frontier."

From BBC • May 30, 2026

In the model, the “availability” phase entailed contact and small-scale movements across the frontier, with trading relationships and marriage alliances, for example, forming gradually.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Battery energy storage systems—which store electricity and release it when needed—could be the next frontier, seeing as they are a critical enabler of renewable energy generation.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

All of this world-building supports the company’s most important claim of all, that space could be “the largest economic frontier in human history.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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