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Recent Examples of townsman One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025 Every year, villagers in Brittany gathered to have their sins forgiven, dance the gavotte, and watch the young townsmen wrestle after denouncing the devil. Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 11 July 2025 According to respective Instagram posts from his show co-star Melissa Gilbert and son Clint Lilley, Lilley died Wednesday after a storied career as a Hollywood stuntman and actor, who played various roles on the beloved '70s historical drama, including a townsman and stagecoach driver. Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025 The townsmen feared his razor-sharp teeth, lightning speed, and quick temper. Maeve Dunigan, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024 Whereas most of the townsmen had a stronger right upper arm bone than the left—suggesting difficult physical labor—some men buried on the hospital grounds had symmetrical arm bones, and their skeletal remains suggested a relatively long and healthy life. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023 Mountaineers and townsmen of eastern Tennessee cam in hundreds to pack the auditorium. sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2018 Our esteemed fellow-townsman Dr. Arnold is making a tour of Boise County on professional business. Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 2 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townsman
Noun
  • Can the president lower the flags for a private citizen?
    James Powel, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The story began moving in the other direction when Kaw Nation citizen James Pepper Henry visited the Sacred Red Rock in the 1990s, vowing one day bring the Stone home to the Kanza people.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But something in Chocolat—the tale of a single mother, Vianne, who opens a chocolate shop in front of the church, on the first day of Lent, in a tiny, conservative French village, setting the villagers at loggerheads—had captured the public imagination.
    Joanne Harris September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With the support of villagers and a French smuggler, Grau embarks on a dangerous mission that jeopardizes his own life and that of his family, while reigniting wounds from the still-recent Spanish Civil War.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Townsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townsman. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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