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Podunk

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as in hamlet

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Recent Examples of Podunk The film, which premiered at Cordillera International Film Festival, was produced by Ken Carpenter under his Nook Lane Entertainment banner, along with Polaha; Adam Karm and Ben Wagner produced with Podunk Productions and AKA Productions. — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025

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Noun

There are nearly two dozen hamlets and villages to spend time in, each with its own personality.

— Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 20 Aug. 2026
Kuru had become so prevalent that in some hamlets there were three men for every woman.

— Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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Archaeologists unearthed Zosia, as the skeleton was nicknamed, from an unmarked burial site in 2022 near the village of Pień in northern Poland.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The rooms 76 hotel rooms and 65 residences are mixed together in houses that cluster to resemble an Algarvian village.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026

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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
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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