Thesaurus / outlying
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PLA warships and submarines could set off across the 80-mile Taiwan Strait carrying an invasion force, seizing outlying islands and neutralizing their defenses as they progressed.
THE RETREAT FROM AFGHANISTAN HAS MADE AMERICA'S ALLIES NERVOUS. NONE MORE SO THAN TAIWANCHARLIE CAMPBELL / SHANGHAISEPTEMBER 3, 2021TIMEInstead, they believe it’s an outlying village whose residents gathered Spanish-made objects through trade, and must have scoured the battle site.
CENTURIES-OLD TOOLS REVEAL HOW THE CHIKASHA PEOPLE FOUGHT OFF CONQUISTADORSSARA CHODOSHJULY 12, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCELow temperatures will tend to dip to near 50 in the District and 40s in our cooler outlying areas, which is also between five and 10 degrees below average.
ABNORMALLY CHILLY WEATHER TO HOVER OVER D.C., MAY DELAY CICADA OUTBURSTJASON SAMENOWMAY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHowever, an outlying question for this hypothesis is where the floodwaters came from.
THREE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE DISASTROUS FLOOD IN INDIACAROLYN GRAMLINGFEBRUARY 9, 2021SCIENCE NEWSI mean, one of the issues with the Milan’s hospitals right now is, they’re currently filled with people who got sick in outlying areas and then had to move to Milan to be taken care of.
WHAT DOES COVID-19 MEAN FOR CITIES (AND MARRIAGES)? (EP. 410)STEPHEN J. DUBNERMARCH 26, 2020FREAKONOMICSThey clattered through the outlying bazaar without disturbing a soul.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYThe outlying provinces of that monarchy in Europe would have sufficed to make three highly respectable states of the second order.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThey stopped a while at mid-day at an outlying farm, but Winston glanced inquiringly at Alfreton when one of the sleighs went on.
WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIEHAROLD BINDLOSSThe fact is there are so many regattas now that the tendency is to concentration, and consequently outlying stations suffer.
YACHTING VOL. 2VARIOUS.But outlying colonies of their nation exist, as is well known, in several lands, notably in Persia and India.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAMWORDS RELATED TO OUTLYING
- abandoned
- abnormal
- alone
- anomalous
- apart
- backwoods
- confined
- deserted
- detached
- exceptional
- forsaken
- hidden
- incommunicado
- lonely
- lonesome
- off the beaten track
- out-of-the-way
- outlying
- random
- remote
- retired
- screened
- secluded
- segregated
- sequestered
- single
- solitary
- special
- stranded
- unaccompanied
- unfrequented
- unrelated
- untypical
- unusual
- withdrawn
- alien
- back
- backwoods
- beyond
- boondocks
- devious
- distant
- far
- far-flung
- far-off
- faraway
- foreign
- frontier
- god-knows-where
- godforsaken
- in a backwater
- inaccessible
- isolated
- lonely
- lonesome
- middle of nowhere
- obscure
- off the beaten path
- off-lying
- outlandish
- outlying
- private
- removed
- retired
- secluded
- secret
- undiscovered
- unknown
- unsettled
- wild
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