hometown
Americannoun
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hometowns
plural
adjective
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Robert De Niro has spent more than five decades building one of Hollywood’s most celebrated careers—and an incredibly unique property portfolio, one that revolves heavily around his hometown of New York.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Neither one of those options sounded great. It was either too much driving or being extremely house poor” because of the extremely high home prices in her hometown, Pierce-Quinonez said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Kusama studied Japanese painting in Kyoto, against her parents' wishes, and held her first solo exhibition in 1952 in her hometown of Matsumoto in central Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Peter Neururer, Goretzka's coach at his hometown club of Bochum, called him a "once-in-a-century talent" when he was 18.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
As Pearl learned more about her new hometown, Moody began to learn more about Mia’s art, and the intricacies and vagaries of the Warren family finances.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
They fled to modernity — Parton to Nashville, my parents to Southern California — as soon as they could but never forsook their hometowns, helping those who remained and taking their culture with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
Eleven of those who died have been buried at the monastery, while the bodies of the others have been returned to their hometowns for burial, according to Megabe.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
These viral trends play on Chinese traditions and young workers' anxieties as millions head to their hometowns to welcome in the Year of the Horse, which begins on February 17.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
“Well...we all use our hometowns as our names,” she said, thinking out loud.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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