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hometown

noun

Definition of hometown

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the city or town where you were born or grew up She returned to her hometown to stay after college.

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Recent Examples of hometown The Big Easy celebrates the 50th anniversary of ‘Interview With the Vampire,’ the first novel by Anne Rice, whose hometown served as her greatest muse. — Shannon Sims, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026 The 1994 campus comedy PCU, starring Jeremy Piven and a young Jon Favreau in a Gen X update of Animal House in the era of political correctness, was based on his hometown. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026 Longoria’s made the magazine’s state rankings in 2003 and 2013 for the beef sausage made with a recipe from Gonzales, the family’s hometown. — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026 Being that the Super Bowl halftime show has a history of genre-blending performances, the Cali natives popping out alongside Hov would check that box while also accounting for hometown representation. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 27 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hometown

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On foreign policy, Lula has worked to boost the political influence of countries in the Global South as a founding member of the BRICS group, a grouping of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, China, Russia, India and South Africa.

— Catherine Osborn, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Elon Musk, who has spent more than four hundred million dollars on Republican campaigns this election cycle, slowed Ukraine’s access to his Starshield satellite network, leaving that country more vulnerable to Russian attacks.

— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

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Mubarak Bekheit, an aid worker in Darfur, told the AP by phone on Wednesday that many people remained missing and some bodies had yet to be recovered from homes in the area after the strike hit a civilian neighborhood.

— YASSIR ABDALLA, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
Bickelhaupt escaped the home and called a ride-sharing service to the airport, intending to travel back to Denver, Colorado, where she was born.

— Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

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