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heartland

[hahrt-land, -luhnd] / ˈhɑrtˌlænd, -lənd /
ADJECTIVE
back country
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That cautious approach, Parrot says, is rooted in the club's role as the standard-bearer for a former mining heartland.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Job losses were most acute in Ontario, the country’s industrial heartland and home to the bulk of the automotive industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

In a college sports landscape lorded over by billionaires, none other than John Mellencamp—the 74-year-old heartland rocker—has played no small part in Indiana’s rise from laughingstock to the No. 1 team in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

And the virus escaped and spread throughout the Yanomami heartland, carried by people who did not know they had been exposed.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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