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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
  • The AfD became Germany’s second most popular party in federal elections earlier this year, reflecting a precipitous rise from obscurity since its founding in 2013.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His journey from Cleveland Heights, Ohio to eventually Canton, Ohio — from obscurity to international fame and a romance woven into American culture — came thisclose to never happening.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • And oh yes, the top half stretched to oblivion.
    Emily Temple August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Inside the West Wing, staff sat in shocked silence, scrolling to see the latest updates of news on their phones and messages on their computer screens.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • After a near-fatal experience, Kaif began seeing both stories and silences differently.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 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 11 Sep. 2025.

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