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Recent Examples of cow town
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.
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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
And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons.
—Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
Not a shining city on a hill, but a little cow town in the mountains.
—Erin Sood, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
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
And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.
—Melissa Clark, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
In the sporting world, all eyes were on tiny Shelby, Montana, a two-block cow town where on July Fourth heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler, would defend this title against Tommy Gibbons.
—Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
In proud but struggling little communities throughout rural Northern California, grand old hotels hark back to when these places were booming Gold Rush towns, timber towns and cow towns.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
Peoria morphed from cow town to boom town, tripling in population to about 190,000 today.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
Daruszka, who speaks on rail topics at libraries and local historical societies, is leading a campaign to make more people aware of how railroads fueled Chicago’s explosive growth from frontier cow town to America’s third largest city.
—Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
Not a shining city on a hill, but a little cow town in the mountains.
—Erin Sood, Dallas News, 1 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cow town
Noun
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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
Noun
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On Tuesday, July 22, an ultralight airplane piloted by 75-year-old Sergio Ravaglia crashed onto the pavement of Corda Molle in a hamlet in Azzano Mella, Brescia, before bursting into flames.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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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.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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“Cow town.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cow%20town. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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