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Recent Examples of townswomanAs 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
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.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
One cut scene, Good recalls, featured a townsman sacrificing himself with a homemade net bomb.
Attackers kill 3, abduct 11 in Nigeria ABUJA, Nigeria -- Gunmen killed three villagers and abducted 11 people, including a Catholic priest, during a predawn attack in northwest Nigeria on Saturday, church officials said.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
Gunmen killed three villagers and abducted 11 people, including a Catholic priest, in a predawn attack on the priest’s residence in Kaduna state.
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Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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.
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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.
Four people, including some children, were hurt when a 49-year-old man drove into the front of the Truckee Safeway on Saturday afternoon, town police said in a statement.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2026
Each one is an artifact of her toxic relationship with her town.
In fact, scores of locals from the main locations played townsfolk.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
His body, however, was never retrieved, and townsfolk continued to blame him for the murder of Chrissy Cunningham and the spooky events that followed in the once sleepy Midwest town.