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
  • Benue has been a hot spot for armed violence in Nigeria's northern region where armed gangs often target remote villagers and travelers with violent killings and kidnapping for ransom.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Environmental authorities in Colombia say the mammals pose a threat to villagers who have encountered them in farms and rivers.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 Apr. 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
  • The story is set in 2013, in a town in an unnamed New England state.
    Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Boasting 37 miles of pure electric power, the NX450h+ certainly succeeds for consumers looking to float around town.
    Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Established in 1917 during World War I, suspended in 1975, and reinstated in 1980, the draft requires men—citizens and immigrants alike—to register under penalty of $250,000 and jail time of up to five years.
    John Whitehead, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Those countries too are looking to make sure that a deal of this nature would not harm its citizens.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Happy Hour was quiet Thursday, but four days earlier the place was packed with townsfolk to watch their freshman friend and neighbor hit the 35-foot shot that finished the 19-point comeback, lifting the Huskies to the Final Four being played about 25 miles away in Indianapolis.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
  • However, just a handful of townsfolk show up and the only one expressing much enthusiasm is a lottery ticket seller.
    John Otis, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026

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“Townswoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswoman. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

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