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the villagers have a reputation for being polite and helpful to the tourists
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To contain and observe those elephants, the villagers use firecrackers, electric fences, and – in one image Shah finds particularly resonant – eyes painted onto tree trunks, a human appeal to the forest to look back and see them.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 May 2026
The fossils of this Cretaceous Period dinosaur were first spotted by a villager in Thailand’s northeastern province of Chaiyaphum.
—Reuters, NBC news, 15 May 2026
The sounds grew louder, and soon armed and masked men were swarming the village, setting its straw huts on fire and indiscriminately shooting villagers.
—Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The government’s unpopularity in the rural areas and propensity for violence against villagers has opened the door for JNIM to cast itself as a more effective protector.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2026
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 May 2026
The fossils of this Cretaceous Period dinosaur were first spotted by a villager in Thailand’s northeastern province of Chaiyaphum.
—Reuters, NBC news, 15 May 2026
The sounds grew louder, and soon armed and masked men were swarming the village, setting its straw huts on fire and indiscriminately shooting villagers.
—Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The government’s unpopularity in the rural areas and propensity for violence against villagers has opened the door for JNIM to cast itself as a more effective protector.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 10 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for villager
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“Villager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/villager. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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villager
noun
vil·lag·er
ˈvil-ij-ər 
: a person living in a village
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