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Recent Examples of villages
There are farmers' markets all over the county offering everything from fruits and veggies to jams and maple syrup, and picturesque towns and villages like Fleischmanns, Walton, and Hobart provide scenic locales for strolling, shopping, and dining.
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Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
More than two dozen new recruits, who all come from a group of Swiss towns and villages, will join the Swiss Guard on Saturday when they are sworn in during a ceremony at the Vatican.
—Katie Kindelan, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
Best of all, these sailings offer overnights on each end in Bordeaux, allowing ample time to explore the city, take biking and walking tours of surrounding villages and vineyards, and visit Port Arcachon, one of locals’ favorite retreats on the Atlantic coast.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
And rumors of continuing violence led residents in towns and villages to avoid Native Americans and new settlers in surrounding frontier areas.
—Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
By the summer of 2024, more than 10,000 villages in Iran had no access to drinking water.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Mary, Joseph, and their family, and other locals from the villages, knew these main roads and paths that still run between the sprawling modern city of Nazareth and the ruins of Sepphoris.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
In villages of the Anka area of Zamfara, a state in northern Nigeria, dozens of severe abdominal pain, headache, and seizures.
—Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Others rely on it for necessities, such as heating oil, winter tires or snowmachines, which are critical modes of transportation in rural villages where residents rely on hunting or trapping.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
More than two dozen new recruits, who all come from a group of Swiss towns and villages, will join the Swiss Guard on Saturday when they are sworn in during a ceremony at the Vatican.
—Katie Kindelan, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2025
Best of all, these sailings offer overnights on each end in Bordeaux, allowing ample time to explore the city, take biking and walking tours of surrounding villages and vineyards, and visit Port Arcachon, one of locals’ favorite retreats on the Atlantic coast.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025
And rumors of continuing violence led residents in towns and villages to avoid Native Americans and new settlers in surrounding frontier areas.
—Ron Barrett, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
By the summer of 2024, more than 10,000 villages in Iran had no access to drinking water.
—Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
Mary, Joseph, and their family, and other locals from the villages, knew these main roads and paths that still run between the sprawling modern city of Nazareth and the ruins of Sepphoris.
—Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
In villages of the Anka area of Zamfara, a state in northern Nigeria, dozens of severe abdominal pain, headache, and seizures.
—Tom Frieden, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Others rely on it for necessities, such as heating oil, winter tires or snowmachines, which are critical modes of transportation in rural villages where residents rely on hunting or trapping.
—Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villages
hamlets
Noun
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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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One is to take a round-trip boat cruise across it, passing lakeside hamlets and villages atop steep mountainsides.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Villages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villages. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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