hometown
Americannoun
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hometowns
plural
adjective
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She was heading to her hometown of Glenwood Springs, Colo., to attend her sister’s wedding when she encountered Sonia-Wallace and his typewriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
First up is my hometown, Newtown, Conn., where my best friend has retired with her husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Margarita Ramirez, a 49-year-old from Pulido's hometown of Edinburg, said she was supporting the singer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Allsopp's India Pale Ale was released in 70 pubs across the country on Friday, including Burton Bridge Inn and The Roebuck Inn, returning the beer to its original hometown.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
She thought of it as her dad's hometown.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
On our recent visits to Ohio and Hokkaido, we were paying homage to childhood hometowns probably for the last time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
None of their hometowns are closer than 2,199 miles from UCLA’s campus, with the farthest 3,010 miles away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
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. 17, 2026
Still, young Singaporeans have shown growing interest in connecting with their heritage, from learning the dwindling dialects of their grandparents to taking lessons and organising trips to ancestral hometowns in China.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
And so for a long while they’d talked about their families and hometowns.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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