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Recent Examples of whistle-stopJeong says that Mad About Seafood is far from just a whistle-stop tour of Korea’s culinary highlights, but instead, an in-depth program about culture and heritage that also provided space for Lee to share more about his identity as a Korean-American.—Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025 In the recent past, top awards contenders would make the full Venice–Telluride–Toronto whistle-stop circuit, using each festival to target a different constituency: international critics and voters at Venice, U.S. tastemakers and guild influencers in Telluride, and mass audiences in Toronto.—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025 On a recent evening in Nuuk, Jensen took USA TODAY on a whistle-stop tour of a few of Nuuk's live music hotspots, where the acts included lounge singers, folk rock bands and jazz artists.—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 6 July 2025 Commander Lawrence leads a whistle-stop tour of his one-gazebo town.—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025 On Monday, the last day before the election, Harris finally came to Allentown for a whistle-stop rally.—Julia Preston, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistle-stop
village
Noun
In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
The behavior observed in the village is a fair representation of the design choices made by the models’ creators.
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