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Noun
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To those who recognize the hamlet as little more than the home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown may seem like an unusual place for a pair of cosmopolitan Danes to settle.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2025 -
The most recent addition to the cozy-town canon is Serenity, S.C., the sweet Southern hamlet featured on Netflix's Sweet Magnolias.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
8 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It’s set in a Norwegian village under German occupation during the Second World War.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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In 2018, developer Rick Caruso opened the 125,000-square-foot Palisades Village shopping center in the heart of town, which put a new, decidedly upscale spin for anyone looking for a stroll through the village.—
Peter Kiefer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
31 Jan. 2025
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If Great Bend failed to achieve the notoriety of Dodge City or other cow towns, Moses’s fellow citizens gave him much of the credit.—
Katy Roberts,
Washington Post,
29 July 2024
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And while Livingston is far from a cow town — more like a fancy-fly-rod-and-real-estate town — Campione still stands out.—
Melissa Clark,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2023
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“Podunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Podunk. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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