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Recent Examples of Synonyms for townswomen
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From Jason Voorhees terrorizing all visitors of Camp Crystal Lake to Michael Myers persistently haunting the inhabitants of Haddonfield, Illinois, horror movies have relied on the silence and mystique of their main antagonists for decades.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025 -
This mountain town of about 60,000 inhabitants was called home by a group of six athletes who would eventually become ski superstars in the 1950s.—
Chadner Navarro,
Vogue,
30 Oct. 2025
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The houses, often apartments inside the city’s tall residential buildings, strike so much fear among residents that anyone willing to live there can negotiate hefty discounts in one of the world’s most expensive property markets.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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The death toll from heavy floods in central Vietnam has risen to 13, the government said Friday, as residents of the flooded city of Hoi An started cleanup operations as the water levels began to subside.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
31 Oct. 2025
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Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson had said Tulane officials reported the monkeys were not infectious, despite initial reports by the truck’s occupants warning that the monkeys were dangerous and harboring various diseases.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson said initial reports from the truck's occupants warned that the monkeys were dangerous and potentially carried diseases.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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Don’t limit yourself to wearing these shoes in nautical destinations—even city dwellers are getting in on this trend.—
Genevieve Cepeda,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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This is hot-button subject matter, no doubt, presented in a way that could reinforce the left’s worst beliefs about the right and make the right think the left sees them all as awful, racist woods-dwellers.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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In the Isan region of Thailand, an ancestral spirit named Ba Yan has been worshiped by villagers for generations.—
Michael Lee Simpson,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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The film, which Jacir has spent eight years developing, centers on a group of Palestinian villagers whose lives are upended by British occupation, tracing the birth of a national movement that reverberates through generations.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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Four people were rescued — two French and two Nepali nationals — and five Nepalis were able to make their own way back to base camp, located at 4,900 meters (16,070 feet).—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Networks often order fast nationals from Nielsen to get a preliminary number for a major event.—
Richard Deitsch,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Despite three tumultuous relocations in the past half-century, most recently a defection to Sin City five years ago, the Raiders still have a rabid fan base — at Allegiant, every game day is Halloween — and the natives and transplants (including 62,080 attendees Sunday) are getting restless.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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While Goldstein and the project’s general manager and mixologist Joseph Jebelean are Miami natives, neither are of Haitian descent (Goldstein is Jewish and Jebelean is half-Colombian and half-Romanian).—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Townswomen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townswomen. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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