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Recent Examples of hamlet
Hayes was arrested outside his home in Port Jefferson Station, a hamlet in Brookhaven on Long Island, that evening, according to police.
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Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Nearby hamlets like Findeln and Zmutt are perfect for a rustic lunch in a traditional mountain hut, while the charming town of Brig, just down the valley, makes an easy day trip by train.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
The setting is the (fictional) hamlet of Ramsden in the very real county of Yorkshire.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
In Kabul, health officials said rescue teams were struggling to reach remote hamlets in a region long prone to earthquakes and floods.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Nearby hamlets like Findeln and Zmutt are perfect for a rustic lunch in a traditional mountain hut, while the charming town of Brig, just down the valley, makes an easy day trip by train.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
The setting is the (fictional) hamlet of Ramsden in the very real county of Yorkshire.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
In Kabul, health officials said rescue teams were struggling to reach remote hamlets in a region long prone to earthquakes and floods.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hamlet
village
Noun
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Police and army inspect damage to a house destroyed by debris from a shot down Russian drone in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland, on September 10, 2025.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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His films tend to have a David-versus-Goliath quality in their characters and their narratives, particularly his 2019 breakout Bacurau, a genre experiment that imagined what would happen if bloodthirsty outsiders attacked a small rural village.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Hamlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hamlet. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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