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heartland

[hahrt-land, -luhnd] / ˈhɑrtˌlænd, -lənd /
ADJECTIVE
back country
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It’s all part of Underwood’s plan to track down the best basketball players in the world—anywhere in the world—and unleash them on the heartland of college basketball.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

KwaZulu-Natal is the heartland of the country's dairy industry.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Dakota Media, the creative and production studio co-founded in 2020 by North Dakota-born actor Josh Duhamel, is registered in Venice, Calif.—but pitches itself as an expert in the heartland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

It's a project long pushed for by Canada's oil heartland but one which faces significant hurdles.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

Like the landscapes of Cahokia and the Maya heartland, some anthropologists say, the great Amazon forest is also a cultural artifact—that is, an artificial object.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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