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Recent Examples of nowheresville Free trade was the meal ticket that brought economists out of nowheresville to their warm place of being consulted, respected, ensconced in gothic offices of universities, and drawing salaries like middling professionals. Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 And when Vladimir Putin was stuck in this nowheresville assignment in Dresden, there were several things that were happening. CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022 These lighting tip-offs are especially helpful because the play gets no help from the set, a stridently abstract nowheresville that inspires a fierce urge to escape. Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022 His Martin is a nowhere man of great distinction, stuck in a nowheresville of a movie. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Mar. 2021 My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms. Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nowheresville
Noun
  • With a single photo, though, Swift vaulted it from obscurity into obsession.
    Malaika Crawford, Vogue, 13 Sep. 2025
  • By the finale, Gaal is no longer the uncertain mathematician plucked from obscurity.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Within the first two hours online, high-level fighting players had already seemingly mastered the game’s beginner-friendly systems and begun using the easily executable combos to dominate the scene, air juggling hapless newbies into oblivion.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Chandra X-ray Observatory, a sophisticated orbiting telescope, detected an X-ray flare leap from the center of the Milky Way into oblivion, offering nearly conclusive proof.
    Rebecca 'Becca' Dyer, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of encouraging students to wrestle with opposing views, many campuses reward silence or groupthink.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This time, DaBaby sits nearby, watching in silence before stepping in to stop the attack and hand the assailant over to police.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The most enduring symbol of that series: Manu Ginobili at age 36, weaving his way through traffic in Game 5, giving a stiff-arm to 2013 tormentor Ray Allen before exploding for an out-of-nowhere dunk on Chris Bosh.
    Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 18 May 2020
  • While the series has officially concluded, this comeback special fast forwards to an entirely new, out-of-nowhere plot point and is therefore easy to watch for novices.
    Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 13 May 2020

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“Nowheresville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nowheresville. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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