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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Podunk
Noun
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Nazareth was considered an extension of the larger village of Japha, a kind of hamlet within Japha’s city borders.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Yet Massie’s partnership with Paul could pay off anyway, in a district that hugs the Ohio River and includes the Cincinnati suburbs and tiny hamlets like Mount Olivet.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10, 2025.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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His films tend to have a David-versus-Goliath quality in their characters and their narratives, particularly his 2019 breakout Bacurau, a genre experiment that imagined what would happen if bloodthirsty outsiders attacked a small rural village.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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What was once just a sleepy little ‘cow town’ in Central California, has now become one of the trendiest wine regions to visit, along with national wine sales that are outperforming the rest of the market.—
Liz Thach,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.—
Katy Roberts,
Washington Post,
29 July 2024
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“Podunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Podunk. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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