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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
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.
This inability to say no leaves Hassan with very little time to mourn the recent loss of a close friend, the matter made even graver when the villager discovers his friend’s death may not have been an accident after all.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
8 July 2026
One villager had been bitten and is being treated in hospital, while a dozen locals had formed a team to catch the snakes, the Hongxing report said.
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.
Sudarshan’s big-picture approach is a long way from the company’s roots as a bus service in the southern town of Madurai.
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Anu Raghunathan,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2026
In recent years, with attendance at Latin Mass topping 4,000, the SSPX built a 1,500-seat, $42 million church high on its campus overlooking the tranquil town.
Mexico’s government has already issued 11 diplomatic notes of protest to the US over the deaths of its citizens, Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco told reporters.
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Mauricio Torres,
CNN Money,
12 July 2026
Under the law, their children were deemed to be citizens at birth.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2026
Built in 1879 by enterprising townsfolk, the Zermatterhof has been welcoming royalty, celebrities, and intrepid mountaineers for nearly a century and a half.
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Alexandra Emanuelli,
Travel + Leisure,
28 June 2026
The mural greeted hundreds of students just back from summer break, and townsfolk dropped by to see what all the talk was about.