countrywoman
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Muchova cheekily congratulated her countrywoman and “Linda, my ex-friend,” as Noskova dedicated the win to her late mother, Ivana, who died of cancer in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Italy’s Alice D’Amato survived with the cleanest routine to claim the gold medal over China’s Zhou Yaqin and countrywoman Manila Esposito, who took silver and bronze, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024
Former French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova edged out Czech compatriot Tereza Martincova 6-4 6-4 to set up a quarter-final against another countrywoman, 18-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
“How could I feel to watch football when my neighbor, my brother, my countryman and countrywoman are in such a bad situation?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
“Tell me your contacts, and I will filter what I pass on to the English. Tell me, and you have confessed to your countrywoman and given nothing to the enemy.”
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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She was followed across the finish line by three countrywomen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
She did so by holding off two countrywomen: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won silver in 10.74, and Shericka Jackson, who took bronze in 10.76 to give Jamaica a medal sweep.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2021
Now she is also determined to destroy the western image of Muslim women as restricted, powerless and oppressed, and to demonstrate that her countrywomen can be as “free” as their western counterparts.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2019
Tamara Pletneva, a senior MP at the Russian parliament or Duma, issued a stern warning to her fellow countrywomen.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2018
Julia, better accustomed to encounter dangers, preserved her countenance with that fearlessness so characteristic of her countrywomen.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
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