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Friday's decision also marks the next step in a national culture-wars battle over library materials that has rocked the country — and rural communities like Llano, a Texas Hill Country hamlet 75 miles northwest of Austin — since 2020.
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Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
For a break, stop in Field, a mountain hamlet of fewer than 200 residents located within the park.
—Jenny Wisniewski, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Melina’s death rattled the community, a historic hamlet of just under 5,000 near the Vermont border, while reports emerged in Canada about financial troubles for Frattolin, and sketchy business deals.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Towns and hamlets have been largely pulverized along the front lines and for miles beyond; even American air defenses are mostly useless, because setting them up invites an immediate Russian attack.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
For a break, stop in Field, a mountain hamlet of fewer than 200 residents located within the park.
—Jenny Wisniewski, USA Today, 26 July 2025
Melina’s death rattled the community, a historic hamlet of just under 5,000 near the Vermont border, while reports emerged in Canada about financial troubles for Frattolin, and sketchy business deals.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 July 2025
Towns and hamlets have been largely pulverized along the front lines and for miles beyond; even American air defenses are mostly useless, because setting them up invites an immediate Russian attack.
—Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hamlet
village
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Authorities ordered residents of a town of about 7,700 people near Patras to evacuate on Tuesday and issued new alerts on Wednesday, advising residents of two nearby villages to leave.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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The flood washed away a community kitchen and a security post set up in the village, a pit stop along the pilgrimage route to the Machail Mata temple, said one of the officials, who declined to be named because he was not authorised to speak to the media about the incident.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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