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village

[vil-ij] / ˈvɪl ɪdʒ /
NOUN
small town
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She said Mohammed was killed after running away from soldiers patrolling their village of Al-Rihiya, in the south of the occupied West Bank.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

We traveled to the remote Boé chimpanzee territory in Guinea-Bissau and based ourselves in Béli, a small village where, in collaboration with local people, the Dutch non-governmental organization Chimbo maintains a compound.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

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

Some 256 residents in four streets in the former mining village were moved out of their homes after ground movement was discovered in May.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

My feet were wet, beginning to freeze, so I changed my socks and boots and we ran up the road, spreading the news through the village.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

One of the larger villages to be struck by the full force of the flood was Trishuli, where some of the earliest verified footage of the disaster emerged from.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

In the United States, Parton's books have reached as far as Bethel, Alaska, a small town accessible only by plane or boat that serves as a hub for Indigenous villages.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

On Wednesday morning, a massive flood of mud, water and debris swept away villages on either side of the border between China and Nepal, killing more than 360 people and leaving around 1,450 missing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

“I was just curious if any of the reigning ‘champions’ knew when the first perambulating library appeared in the rural villages of Cumbria County, England.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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