as in obscurity
the quality or state of being mostly or completely unknown
after years of languishing in nowheresville, she started to make it really big in the art world
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Recent Examples of nowheresville
Free trade was the meal ticket that brought economists out of nowheresville to their warm place of being consulted, respected, ensconced in gothic offices of universities, and drawing salaries like middling professionals.
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Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
And when Vladimir Putin was stuck in this nowheresville assignment in Dresden, there were several things that were happening.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
These lighting tip-offs are especially helpful because the play gets no help from the set, a stridently abstract nowheresville that inspires a fierce urge to escape.
—Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
His Martin is a nowhere man of great distinction, stuck in a nowheresville of a movie.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Mar. 2021
My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
And when Vladimir Putin was stuck in this nowheresville assignment in Dresden, there were several things that were happening.
—CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
These lighting tip-offs are especially helpful because the play gets no help from the set, a stridently abstract nowheresville that inspires a fierce urge to escape.
—Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 9 Oct. 2022
His Martin is a nowhere man of great distinction, stuck in a nowheresville of a movie.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Mar. 2021
My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nowheresville
Noun
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His sister’s rationale for sticking with Malassezia was that the name’s obscurity would shield it from scrutiny.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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Less visible are the civil rights struggles its Asian American community fought to attain. State of play: Though figures like Wong Kim Ark have received more attention in recent years, there are still a plethora who remain in obscurity.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
22 May 2025
Noun
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The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
27 May 2025
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Even one of these incidents could have been enough to break a player and send him off into oblivion.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
22 May 2025
Noun
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And then there’s the quiet stuff—travel, visuals, conversations, even silence.—
Zoya Hasan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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In the silence that ensued, Ramaphosa took the question instead.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
Noun
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The most enduring symbol of that series: Manu Ginobili at age 36, weaving his way through traffic in Game 5, giving a stiff-arm to 2013 tormentor Ray Allen before exploding for an out-of-nowhere dunk on Chris Bosh.—
Jeff McDonald,
ExpressNews.com,
18 May 2020
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While the series has officially concluded, this comeback special fast forwards to an entirely new, out-of-nowhere plot point and is therefore easy to watch for novices.—
Sam Machkovech,
Ars Technica,
13 May 2020
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“Nowheresville.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nowheresville. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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