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a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists
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Those performances are tourist events geared toward the public, as villagers march during the daytime along the town’s main road.
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Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
All throughout the year, Sardinian villagers work together in cooperatives, tending their vineyards and olive orchards and raising pigs for ham and salami.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
So the Carter Center has worked with African and Asian health agencies to change how rural villagers live daily life by offering education about how the disease spreads and how to prevent it, providing water filters to those in need and using larvicides to control outbreaks.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
The former president rallied public health experts, billionaire donors, African heads of state and thousands of volunteer villagers to work toward eliminating a human disease for only the second time in history.
—Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
No Other Land No Other Land, the documentary by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, accomplishes something exceedingly rare – allowing viewers everywhere to experience what life is like for Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
The next day, the team will head to another island to meet with villagers there.
—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
When fishermen return to shore in the early morning, villagers gather on the beach to help cut, clean and salt the night's haul.
—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
And in these or other cases, settlers who had previously harassed villagers apparently now did so in uniform, with even greater impunity.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
All throughout the year, Sardinian villagers work together in cooperatives, tending their vineyards and olive orchards and raising pigs for ham and salami.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
So the Carter Center has worked with African and Asian health agencies to change how rural villagers live daily life by offering education about how the disease spreads and how to prevent it, providing water filters to those in need and using larvicides to control outbreaks.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2024
The former president rallied public health experts, billionaire donors, African heads of state and thousands of volunteer villagers to work toward eliminating a human disease for only the second time in history.
—Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
No Other Land No Other Land, the documentary by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, accomplishes something exceedingly rare – allowing viewers everywhere to experience what life is like for Palestinian villagers in the occupied West Bank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
The next day, the team will head to another island to meet with villagers there.
—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
When fishermen return to shore in the early morning, villagers gather on the beach to help cut, clean and salt the night's haul.
—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
And in these or other cases, settlers who had previously harassed villagers apparently now did so in uniform, with even greater impunity.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Villagers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villagers. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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