hamlet
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Six years ago, the town of Chrey Thom was little more than a trading hamlet on Cambodia’s border with Vietnam.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
"We have been a forgotten territory," says Luz Dary Munoz, leader of a nearby hamlet.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
It is an abandoned hamlet in the middle of the Welsh countryside, that could be straight from a post-apocalyptic horror movie.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Reid’s impoverished youth in a tiny hamlet in southern Nevada gave him an iron will, steep ambition and a sizable chip on his shoulder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Each hamlet was involved in a kaleidoscopically changing pattern of war and shifting alliances with all neighboring hamlets, regardless of whether the neighbors were Foré or speakers of a different language.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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