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  • noun Plural form of hinterland.

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  • The ability of new faces to challenge the status quo from the hinterlands is an important but underappreciated feature of American federalism: Governors play a key role in keeping a party's fortunes alive when the party no longer controls the federal government.

    Balkinization 2003

  • The ability of new faces to challenge the status quo from the hinterlands is an important but underappreciated feature of American federalism: Governors play a key role in keeping a party's fortunes alive when the party no longer controls the federal government.

    Balkinization 2003

  • "It's pushed the dealers off the main streets, but it's also pushed people into what I call the hinterlands," he says.

    Rochester City Newspaper 2010

  • "It's pushed the dealers off the main streets, but it's also pushed people into what I call the hinterlands," he says.

    Rochester City Newspaper Tim Louis Macaluso 2010

  • Even so, questions regarding Richmond's ethics continued to stir in hinterlands of the Internet, with new questions being asked by documentary filmmaker Jason Berry, who was known among a certain set of New Orleans residents for being into non-partisan muckracking of a more local sort at his American Zombie blog.

    Ray Mikell: Richmond Leading Cao As Ethics Questions Linger Ray Mikell 2010

  • Even so, questions regarding Richmond's ethics continued to stir in hinterlands of the Internet, with new questions being asked by documentary filmmaker Jason Berry, who was known among a certain set of New Orleans residents for being into non-partisan muckracking of a more local sort at his American Zombie blog.

    Ray Mikell: Richmond Leading Cao As Ethics Questions Linger Ray Mikell 2010

  • THERE IS HISTORY that is based on hard, documented fact; history that is colored with rumor, speculation, or falsehood; and history that exists in what might be termed the hinterlands of the imagination.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • If defending Kandahar is the only Canadian goal, then the ploy of tricking us out into the hinterlands is a successful tactic ... yet our mission is not just Kanahar City ... but the entire province.

    Outside Kandahar with the troops 2007

  • For the East-Coast rich, banishing one's offspring to the hinterlands is a time-honoured summer tradition.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010

  • Vu Hotel in the Far West Side hinterlands, which is in foreclosure and "can't open until new ownership takes over."

    Curbed 2009

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