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Recent Examples of Potemkin village
The resort reproduces an ancient Apulian town and farmhouse in a project that some locals have likened to a Mediterranean Potemkin village.
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Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Is the immaculate beauty of that metro station a Potemkin village glossing over the fear with which many Russians live?
—Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of San Francisco will remain filthy, lawless and plagued with homeless encampments and drugs, and the Potemkin village will vanish after the summit.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
But Horizons Worlds, which as of October reportedly had less than two hundred thousand users, is so far more like a virtual Potemkin village constructed to keep the boss happy.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
The $60 million headquarters, for one, was barely a Potemkin village.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
These guys taking the field now are placeholders, the Potemkin village of playoff teams.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
The McNamaras were a Potemkin village of family bliss.
—Washington Post, 6 May 2022
Emma Bubola, New York Times, 11 June 2024
The fake blood, the cars on rails, the Potemkin villages, not to mention the computer graphics, the herds and armies and tempests that exist only in code.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
Is the immaculate beauty of that metro station a Potemkin village glossing over the fear with which many Russians live?
—Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024
Most of San Francisco will remain filthy, lawless and plagued with homeless encampments and drugs, and the Potemkin village will vanish after the summit.
—WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
But Horizons Worlds, which as of October reportedly had less than two hundred thousand users, is so far more like a virtual Potemkin village constructed to keep the boss happy.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
The $60 million headquarters, for one, was barely a Potemkin village.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
These guys taking the field now are placeholders, the Potemkin village of playoff teams.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
The McNamaras were a Potemkin village of family bliss.
—Washington Post, 6 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Potemkin village
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These gestures have been welcomed by Western governments, though many experts discount them as a fig leaf.Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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To put it another way, the technology shouldn’t be employed as a fig leaf for fashion to keep churning out ever-increasing quantities of synthetics.Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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After Locarno, Drowning Dry went on to screen at Busan, Viennale, São Paulo, Stockholm, and Tallinn Black Nights.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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The venue will also include a sports bar with three large screens that will serve elevated bar food like pizza, burgers and flatbreads.Reia Li, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
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The company is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit on several grounds, including that the state is attempting to mandate age verification and parental controls that violate the First Amendment and that the legal liability shield Section 230 should block the suit.Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
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These humming, holographic-looking Holtzman shields appear very similar to the ones used by Paul Atreides (Chalamet), Warmaster Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin) and Swordmaster Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) in the first of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
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Movie gods, hear our prayer: may cinematic murderers never remember to shut their blinds, amen.Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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Special dusters are made specifically for blinds, and many fabric curtains and drapes are machine washable.Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Potemkin village.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Potemkin%20village. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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