townswoman

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Recent Examples of townswoman As the backstory evolved, Calico townswoman Sarah Marshall transformed into the Green Witch on the gallows, turned her accusing neighbors into monsters with a wicked curse and vanished in a puff of smoke with a cackling laugh. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025 One townswoman Wise befriended at work met her in a bathroom with a change of clothes and the ID badge of another woman who was out sick. Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2022 The other is the drowning, under possibly suspicious circumstances, of a much-loved young townswoman, Ariel. Ellen Akins Washington Post, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for townswoman
Noun
  • These were probably composed by Sebastian Lotzer, a townsman and furrier, on the basis of hundreds of complaints that different groups of peasants had been formulating for weeks beforehand.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • All the villagers were just so warm with us.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 2 May 2026
  • Pema Wangdu’s main teacher, Pema Döndrub, also from Nubri, describes a visit to a neighboring valley in which an official asks local villagers to bring the lama and his entourage some chang.
    Geoff Childs, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our neighbors were Blacks and Puerto Ricans, working-class Irish and Italians, and some Jews who hadn’t yet moved on, plus the legions of us new immigrants, from Asia and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, who’d ended up in this commuter town north of New York City.
    Chang-rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
  • One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore.
    Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • In gathering evidence, the commission received videos and testimony from officials and ordinary citizens, and held five public hearings that wrapped up on Tuesday.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Deborah Courtney drove more than two hours from from Jacksonville and noted that all citizen speakers expressed opposition.
    Bill Barrow, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The audience is thrust into 1944 Hartford with townsfolk excited about how the circus is coming to town.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Just as the various townsfolk characters are clearly modeled on those that trod the musical boards back in Broadway‘s Golden Age, so too does the score owe its debts.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026

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“Townswoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswoman. Accessed 7 May. 2026.

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