hometown

“Inside the Owner’s Box” is partly a memoir of purchasing his hometown team, partly a compendium of his interviews with other sports executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Our own hometown of Cuenca offers many of the same advantages.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Oddly enough, Walters’ hometown is also named Walters.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Tech hubs across the border in mainland China, such as Alibaba's hometown of Hangzhou, are expanding far faster, spurred by AI investors such as Deepseek and Unitree Robotics.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

In the early days of the OASIS, Halliday had created a small planet named Middletown, named after his hometown in Ohio.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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

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

Since all three of us were originally from Philadelphia, we shared stories about how most people don’t know a real Philly cheesesteak when they eat one in their hometowns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

It was critical now, Olmsted argued, to concentrate on making improvements of a kind most likely to increase the gleam in the stories people took back to their hometowns.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson