villager
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villagers
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"My house is gone," Leni, a 55-year-old villager now staying at a shelter with her family, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Indonesian villager Octavius wades through the forest in rubber boots and tattered joggers, ears pricked, eyes peeled, a telephoto lens on his phone primed to capture orangutans, monkeys or birds.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the mid-2000s, he said, he learned what one villager after another had discovered: Local property officials had given Shehu control of their peninsula land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
You know, if you want a village, you’ve got to be a villager.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
The first villager reached out his hand to Amah for his completed job, a cloth embroidered with the dark blue color of a burial robe.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
Like the rest of the villagers, her jealousy stems from a seemingly harmonious yet ultimately unfulfilling relationship, providing just enough humor and stakes for “Wicker” to glide amiably.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Wisam al-Burqan, one of the villagers, said he arrived at the site of the attack minutes after the assailants fled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Fischer and Wilson’s bawdy fable is predominately about how this flammable hunk makes the rest of the villagers burn up with jealousy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
ZVERNEC, Albania—On the doorstep of a Jared Kushner-linked development site on the Adriatic Sea, a group of determined villagers set out in late May to protest barbed-wire fencing preventing their access to a coastal peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The villagers thought it was a prank, a bad joke, but then the visitors unveiled the thing in the truck and set it before them.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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