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village

[vil-ij] / ˈvɪl ɪdʒ /
NOUN
small town
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London’s 2012 Wenlock mascot was a bottom-heavy cyclops figure named for an English village that held a kind of Olympic competition in 1850.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

While planners say "it's all beautiful, it's all fantastic", locals fear environmental impacts, "disruption during the construction work" and potential expansion of the village with new houses or even blocks of flats, he added.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

In April, a mother spoke of her horror after her son came across a number of dead lambs while out litter picking near the village of Cappagh.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The university and its surrounding village, including the theater, were developed simultaneously throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

At the end of the celebration, the town unveiled a boulder of Vermont granite on the village green with a bronze plaque as a permanent memorial to Phineas.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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