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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Potemkin villages
screens
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There will be a special show on the Metropolitano’s screens and their public address system, as well as lights around the stadium’s wraparound video scoreboard, known as the ‘sky ribbon’.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
9 Mar. 2026 -
That covered a crew of six working approximately 27 days, sifting through roughly 100 square metres of dirt using 3mm mesh screens, plus Indigenous community monitoring throughout the process.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Potemkin villages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Potemkin%20villages. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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