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village

[vil-ij] / ˈvɪl ɪdʒ /
NOUN
small town
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I live in a village well inside the city limits of Houston with one of the lowest crime rates.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Residents of two streets in a Clackmannanshire village facing mining subsidence have been told their homes will have to be demolished, BBC Scotland has learned.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The image below shows the Syapru Besi village 8½ miles downriver from the border post before and after the flood.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

Lamichhane is from the village of Betrawati, which was one of the many areas badly affected.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

I walked through a small village where chickens and gnomes were scattered among little houses with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Rescuers in Nepal and China were still battling Saturday to locate thousands of people missing days after a deadly, tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept through the Himalayan region, engulfing villages.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

The Aztecs’ language, a strand of Nahuatl, is still spoken by over one million indigenous people in rural villages, while many Aztec traditions quietly persisted.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

As well as ambulances, hearses were also seen along the route, where rescuers said entire villages had been washed away by floodwaters.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border have killed at least 353 people and left more than 1,300 missing, sweeping away villages, roads and hydropower facilities.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

In the summer barges bring supplies up the river to the villages.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen




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