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Recent Examples of Potemkin village
But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
The resort reproduces an ancient Apulian town and farmhouse in a project that some locals have likened to a Mediterranean Potemkin village.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Is the immaculate beauty of that metro station a Potemkin village glossing over the fear with which many Russians live?
—Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of San Francisco will remain filthy, lawless and plagued with homeless encampments and drugs, and the Potemkin village will vanish after the summit.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
But Horizons Worlds, which as of October reportedly had less than two hundred thousand users, is so far more like a virtual Potemkin village constructed to keep the boss happy.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
The $60 million headquarters, for one, was barely a Potemkin village.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
These guys taking the field now are placeholders, the Potemkin village of playoff teams.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 26 Nov. 2024
The resort reproduces an ancient Apulian town and farmhouse in a project that some locals have likened to a Mediterranean Potemkin village.
—Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Is the immaculate beauty of that metro station a Potemkin village glossing over the fear with which many Russians live?
—Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of San Francisco will remain filthy, lawless and plagued with homeless encampments and drugs, and the Potemkin village will vanish after the summit.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
But Horizons Worlds, which as of October reportedly had less than two hundred thousand users, is so far more like a virtual Potemkin village constructed to keep the boss happy.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
The $60 million headquarters, for one, was barely a Potemkin village.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
These guys taking the field now are placeholders, the Potemkin village of playoff teams.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Potemkin village
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The countertop acts as the bar, with the silver cylinders housing opening flavors: gingerbread; an almost savory fig leaf, oolong, and prune; mellow sorbets.Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Jan. 2025
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With the insurgents holding out for a settlement only on their own terms, Washington would then be forced to choose between a weak agreement providing a fig leaf for its abandonment of the country, a total failure of negotiations, and the indefinite engagement of U.S. combat troops.Ronald E. Neumann, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2012
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His wicked point shot is just what Coach Carbs needs for his system of double screens of the goalie.Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Both of the new Samsung notebooks feature the company’s impressive OLED screen technology and are powered by the brand new commercial version of Intel’s Core Ultra chips.Bob O’Donnell, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
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To the south of the extensive snow shield, a strip of damaging ice will build up on trees and power lines, potentially knocking out electricity to millions of people from central Kansas to West Virginia Sunday into Monday.Andrew Freedman, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
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In the Manhattan fire, Gaffney used a removed door as a shield to move through a raging fire to find a pregnant woman and a child, who were both unconscious.Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
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The whole sequence took us like two to three days and this part of it was about a day of playing with the windshield wipers and these blinds.Yolanda Machado, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Close all curtain or blinds at night to prevent any drafts.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Potemkin village.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Potemkin%20village. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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