outpost

Example Sentences

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While NASA’s goal is to establish more of an outpost dedicated to expanding the reach of the U.S., others are planning something straight out of the works of Andy Weir or Robert Heinlein: colonization.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

In December last year, he signed an executive order calling for a US return to the Moon by 2028 and the establishment of a permanent outpost there by 2030.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

They had been travelling between Puerto Leguizamo and another Amazon outpost nearby.

From Barron's • Mar. 23, 2026

Delmonico’s, a Wall Street area fixture, is preparing to open a second outpost despite the rapidly rising price of beef.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

There was a Japanese outpost at Cape Torokina nearby, but our scouts thought it had only about a hundred men.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac