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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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This village on stilts dances to the sea's rhythm, where sampans sail serene waters, and locals craft shrimp paste under the sun, just like their Tanka ancestors.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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The Grand Jury Prize went to Emin Alper’s Salvation, a drama that charts the escalation of violence in an isolated village community in the Turkish mountains following the return of an exiled clan.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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About half its population is part of Italy’s Ladin minority, which settled the mountain hamlet of Anpezo a millennium ago.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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About 80 miles east of downtown, the San Bernardino County mountain hamlet of Wrightwood and its largest employer, the Mountain High Resort, are welcoming a snow deluge and hoping this is their busiest weekend of the season.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Cow town.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cow%20town. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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