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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Podunk
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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While wintertime in New England conjures images of pristine pine forests and quaint villages blanketed in snow, the frigid weather can also make life a little difficult to deal with.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Through the Song Saa Foundation, guests can visit the nearby village of Prek Svay, help plant coral nurseries, or snorkel with marine scientists.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
25 Feb. 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 4 Mar. 2025.
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