Outlying
Outlying adjective - Relatively far from a center or middle.
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Ways
Ways noun - Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
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- The problem is that Empire has been on a slow decline for centuries, gradually losing control of all of its outlying "provinces." By the time the novel opens, most outlying provinces are acting as independent powers in all the ways that matter.
Source: Literature / Hard to Be a God
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