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the city or town where you were born or grew up
She returned to her hometown to stay after college.
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Recent Examples of hometowns
As the Olympic Break begins, some Sharks will soon board flights to Italy to represent their countries, and several others are heading back to their hometowns.
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Three team members listed hometowns in other countries, hailing from New Zealand, Canada and Ukraine.
—Taylor Johnston, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
In many cases, funeral ceremonies were held under heavy security control in the hometowns of those killed.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The Charley Hoffman Foundation was created by PGA TOUR professional Charley Hoffman and his wife Stacy in 2009 to raise funds for charities benefiting children in their native and adopted hometowns of San Diego and Las Vegas.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Many returnees face kidnapping, extortion or violence, forcing them to flee their hometowns again in what experts call double displacement.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
Although women from North East, Kent, and Wessex appeared to want to leave their hometowns for a new world, specifically.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
According to the Smithsonian, the festival period is an important holiday for families, with people traveling back to their hometowns and elders preparing family meals.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026
Three team members listed hometowns in other countries, hailing from New Zealand, Canada and Ukraine.
—Taylor Johnston, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
In many cases, funeral ceremonies were held under heavy security control in the hometowns of those killed.
—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 22 Jan. 2026
The Charley Hoffman Foundation was created by PGA TOUR professional Charley Hoffman and his wife Stacy in 2009 to raise funds for charities benefiting children in their native and adopted hometowns of San Diego and Las Vegas.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
At these delightfully divey watering holes, every visible surface is covered in dollars scribbled with the initials, anniversaries, hometowns, inside jokes, dates, or names of anyone who has darkened the doors of that particular bar over the past fifty years—or maybe just the past week.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
Many returnees face kidnapping, extortion or violence, forcing them to flee their hometowns again in what experts call double displacement.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2026
Although women from North East, Kent, and Wessex appeared to want to leave their hometowns for a new world, specifically.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
According to the Smithsonian, the festival period is an important holiday for families, with people traveling back to their hometowns and elders preparing family meals.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hometowns
countries
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London’s Natural History Museum teamed up with an international judging panel of photography, wildlife, conservation and science experts to select 24 images from a total 60,636 entries submitted from 113 countries.—
Charlotte Reck,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The Smithsonian has been studying and conserving Asian elephants for more than 50 years, both at the National Zoo and across elephant-range countries in Asia.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Hometowns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hometowns. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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