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as in compatriot
a person living in or originally from the same country as another
met a fellow Canadian countryman while traveling in France
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as in peasant
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
though neither well-educated nor well-dressed, the countryman presented the farmers' case before the state legislature
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Recent Examples of countryman
That set up an All-American semifinal match between Frances Tiafoe and Taylor Fritz, with the latter outlasting his countryman in five sets in an epic bout at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 28 Dec. 2024
Each team is based on the West Coast, presenting an advantage of proximity over Dallas, and has at least one Japanese star to help a rookie countryman make the transition: Yu Darvish on the Padres, and Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Dodgers.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Assad, who fled with his immediate family to Russia and was granted asylum by his longtime patron Vladimir Putin, was not around to see his countrymen embracing the HTS rebels who had, in a matter of days, taken over Syria.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
If they are massively deported, Mexico could see tens of thousands of its countrymen and women deported home without jobs, no longer able to send the remittances that keep many Mexican households afloat.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 28 Dec. 2024
Each team is based on the West Coast, presenting an advantage of proximity over Dallas, and has at least one Japanese star to help a rookie countryman make the transition: Yu Darvish on the Padres, and Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Dodgers.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Assad, who fled with his immediate family to Russia and was granted asylum by his longtime patron Vladimir Putin, was not around to see his countrymen embracing the HTS rebels who had, in a matter of days, taken over Syria.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 9 Dec. 2024
If they are massively deported, Mexico could see tens of thousands of its countrymen and women deported home without jobs, no longer able to send the remittances that keep many Mexican households afloat.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for countryman
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Her progress at Melbourne was stopped by Sabalenka at the semifinal stage and she was beaten twice by compatriot Emma Navarro in the last 16 at both Flushing Meadows and Wimbledon.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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But the 26-year-old was back alongside compatriot Cameron Carter-Vickers in the heart of Brendan Rodgers’ back line on Sunday for the game against St Mirren.Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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He was born in 1915 into a poor but educated peasant family in Hunan Province.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
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Lucio has dedicated his life to re-invigorating ancestral culture and helping peasants overcome such modern challenges as industrial agriculture, pollution, and urban growth encroaching on their land.Jeanne Malle, airmail.news, 24 Aug. 2024
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Its citizens can visit places such as Cambodia, Maldives, Djibouti, Sri Lanka and Haiti without needing to obtain a visa.Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2025
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The impact of major wars, political upheaval and climate concerns continue to play their part in the statuses and accessibility of many countries and the rights of their citizens to travel.Duncan Madden, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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In the special, taped at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, Kober brings audiences together with stories about dealing with hometown hicks, unforgiving fruit flies and California candy cartels.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 June 2024
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Several vessels collided, terrifying the uninitiated landsmen on board.David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
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Though as a Black man Gould had only limited opportunities for advancement, he was later promoted to landsman and then wardroom steward.New York Times, New York Times, 17 June 2022
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This removed one of the last obstacles preventing poor provincials from governing the empire.Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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While early imperial aristocrats saw provincials as subject nations with their own cultures, their working-class replacements considered Romans a single people and expected all to share the same values.Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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The story features Mauro, a clown who dreams of a carnival where a parade of revelers are celebrating his life.Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Both movies feature a killer clown, but while Joaquin Phoenix’s grinning menace suffers from delusions of grandeur and an unspecified mental illness, the hideous ghoul from hell in Terrifier known as Art hacks away at his victims with no discernible motivation beyond the grisly acts themselves.Eric Kohn, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025
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Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
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Ben’s refusal to stand down for a middle-aged white man seeking to wrest power from him was radical, as was the film’s ending, in which the hero was shot by yokels failing to distinguish him from the zombies previously described as animals.Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Countryman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/countryman. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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