Wild West
the western frontier region of the U.S., before the establishment of stable government.
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Slicing through Big Bend National Park, the narrow, two-lane road curves through cliffs of volcanic tuff and past Wild West ranches, ending at the spectacular 1,500-foot limestone walls of Santa Elena Canyon.
Not long ago, Twitch was a livestreaming Wild West, featuring questionable content ranging from thinly veiled piracy to videos of mass violence.
Hot tubs and hardcore gamers: How Twitch is trying to stay brand-friendly as it expands beyond gaming | Alexander Lee | August 26, 2021 | DigidayThere is not this sense of Wild West excitement like there was four or five years ago, and that was the Golden Age of raising capital, certainly for earlier stage companies.
Kodiak Robotics’ founder says tight focus on autonomous trucks is working | Rebecca Bellan | July 30, 2021 | TechCrunchThe world of cookie advertising resembles a capitalist Wild West, where anyone can hang a shingle and try building a fortune in Web ads.
Google is totally changing how ads track people around the Internet. Here’s what you need to know. | Gerrit De Vynck | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostAll that attention is spurring efforts to better police the market—but for now, it’s still a Wild West.
Colleges are also warned that congressional investigations are a “‘Wild West’ without real rules.”
Colleges Lawyer Up Before Claire McCaskill Rape Inquiry | Emily Shire | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRevel in Wild West lore at the Pony Express National Museum and Jesse James Home Museum in St Joseph, just outside KC.
“WANTED,” the ad reads in a mock-up of old-style Wild West posters.
Luckily, says Hounsou, the direction society is moving makes this the perfect time for that Wild West to be tamed.
The Power of Documentary: Danny Glover, Djimon Hounsou, and ‘Budrus’ Director Julia Bacha | Kevin Fallon | November 18, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAfghanistan was a Wild West of Special Forces operators on horseback and tribal raids.
You'll be a heap more sane when you get that old, wild-west notion, that every man should be a law unto himself, out of your head.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair"I shouldn't mind going to the Wild West show," observed Tom.
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)How typical of the push, vigor, enterprise and pluck which have proved so masterful in the development of our once "Wild West."
Ocean to Ocean on Horseback | Willard GlazierAllowing for nickel-show and Wild-West suggestions, there remains a touch of a somewhat primitive exploit.
The Minister and the Boy | Allan HobenThe Indians were erecting a fire-stake, such as they had used in the Wild West when some victim was to be roasted alive!
The Boy Land Boomer | Ralph Bonehill
British Dictionary definitions for Wild West
the western US during its settlement, esp with reference to its frontier lawlessness
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