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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a backdrop from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a setting, context, or background that originates from a specific source or location.
Example: "The artist created a stunning painting, using a backdrop from the serene landscapes of the countryside."
Alternatives: "a background from" or "a setting from".
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Conflicts, onslaughts, displacements and betrayals were a backdrop from the middle ages to the late 20th century.
Or dine in the courtyard of a converted old house with a backdrop from the Mughal empire at Olive, near the Qutb Minar.
Sweet rose of youth A pergola of roses, trailing plants, the scent of a garden and models with rosy cheeks — it could only be a backdrop from Antonio Marras.
The absence of the much-anticipated New Jersey race, which would have had Manhattan as a backdrop, from the calendar is not a surprise.
With its stalactites and stalagmites twisting in the church-high darkness, Kong Lor cave looks like a backdrop from a Star Trek movie.
An oil rig, a factory, a backdrop from Bladerunner… The Lloyd's building has been called many things in its 30-year life.
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You almost never need to do anything with the money you earn, and so the city becomes merely a backdrop for driving from one mission to the next.
But the park that looms so large in the minds of the fans has been but a backdrop for me — imposing from afar, but up close about as real as a theatrical prop.
In an independent Scotland the case for radical alternatives would be argued against a backdrop free from the needs of London as a global financial centre, from "special relationships" and from an unrealistic view of our place in the world.
Pavel Illner, 65, of Oyster Bay stood in an eight-foot-tall shadow box holding a pitchfork against a backdrop copied from Grant Wood's "American Gothic".
Even Dr. Dean, the least show-biz of presidential candidates (so far), felt compelled to appear at a New York City rally in front of a backdrop commissioned from a graffiti artist, as if to plant the subliminal visual cue he had an urban hip-hop following.
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