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Recent Examples of villages
For years, younger generations have flocked to big cities for better job opportunities, leaving a dwindling elderly population in rural villages.
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Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Images of public health workers on river boats and army helicopters full of nurses descending on indigenous villages were often used in official propaganda to promote the nation’s prowess as a global leader on immunization.
—Adriana Brasileiro, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Tie money to measurable results and sound governance, and benefits can travel from headwater villages to port cities linked by trade.
—William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Little Villages, Lots of Detail Hosted by Oliver Hudson and executive produced by Chip and Joanna Gaines, the series challenges teams to build gingerbread villages with astonishing detail.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
From Jamu and Javanese villages to family dynamics.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Stratton offers more than 2,000 feet in vertical drop and one of the few slope-side villages on the East Coast.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
In the Outer Banks, the villages of Rodanthe and Buxton have been hit particularly hard by the effects of coastal erosion, according to the NPS.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2025
Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
Images of public health workers on river boats and army helicopters full of nurses descending on indigenous villages were often used in official propaganda to promote the nation’s prowess as a global leader on immunization.
—Adriana Brasileiro, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Tie money to measurable results and sound governance, and benefits can travel from headwater villages to port cities linked by trade.
—William Jones, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Little Villages, Lots of Detail Hosted by Oliver Hudson and executive produced by Chip and Joanna Gaines, the series challenges teams to build gingerbread villages with astonishing detail.
—Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
From Jamu and Javanese villages to family dynamics.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
Stratton offers more than 2,000 feet in vertical drop and one of the few slope-side villages on the East Coast.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
In the Outer Banks, the villages of Rodanthe and Buxton have been hit particularly hard by the effects of coastal erosion, according to the NPS.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villages
hamlets
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In the meantime, the school is sending teachers to give lessons in smaller underground spaces in the hamlets.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Yet Massie’s partnership with Paul could pay off anyway, in a district that hugs the Ohio River and includes the Cincinnati suburbs and tiny hamlets like Mount Olivet.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Villages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villages. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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