hometown
Americannoun
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hometowns
plural
adjective
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Parton died “peacefully” on Aug. 25 following a brief battle with cancer in her hometown of Nashville, Tenn., where she and her late husband, Carl Dean, had lived for decades.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Wembanyama combined his work with Provence with hosting his Hoop Gambit event, in which participants play games of chess and basketball, in his hometown of Le Chesnay.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Chimi Lhamo, an ethnic Tibetan makeup artist working in one of Shangri-La’s hundreds of costume photography studios, is torn about the tourist waves that have transformed her hometown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
About 20 miles south, in Cedartown, her husband Noah decided to come back to his hometown to help right the ship.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Because they were from the city of Budzyń, near my hometown of Narewka, they spoke Yiddish with the same dialect I did.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Since that $26 million refusal, Bare and Huddleston, two self-described “country hicks,” have become polarizing heroes of the rural campaign against the AI technology rewiring geopolitics, the economy—and now hometowns like theirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The bodies of those killed were also taken to the hospital and following identification, will be transported to their hometowns by ambulance.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Since all three of us were originally from Philadelphia, we shared stories about how most people don’t know a real Philly cheesesteak when they eat one in their hometowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Tens of millions of Indonesians are travelling by motorcycle, car, plane or boat to their hometowns in an annual exodus for the Eid holiday that begins in the world's largest Muslim-majority country on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
It was critical now, Olmsted argued, to concentrate on making improvements of a kind most likely to increase the gleam in the stories people took back to their hometowns.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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