Podunk

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Noun
  • Known as Mill Farm, the immensse estate sits in the tiny hamlet of Ancramdale, about 100 miles north of Manhattan.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The officials decided to delay the town’s aboveground reconstruction and instead put all of their efforts into a regional underground school that would accommodate 450 students from 18 nearby hamlets.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Every village has a place where young people and kids gather to have fun, and mostly, if there is a ball, the kids play football.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In 1940, the Oakland County suburb north of Detroit officially became a city, but more than a century later, the town has maintained its small-town village charm.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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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“Podunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Podunk. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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