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Recent Examples of regional
The stock is one of many in the European defense space that has benefited from a broad regional push to ramp up security budgets.
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Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 18 July 2025
Fisher first learned about the program last fall, after a former USDA employee and regional contact told her about it.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
For banks in the regional tier – who continue to see an upward trend in non-performing loans – the calculus is cold: Scale up aggressively through strategic M&A or prepare to become someone else’s synergy.
—Michael Abbott, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Siem Reap has recently added a $1.1-billion international airport that has turned this city into a regional hub for anyone interested in exploring not just Cambodia but wider Southeast Asia.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
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Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 18 July 2025
Fisher first learned about the program last fall, after a former USDA employee and regional contact told her about it.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
For banks in the regional tier – who continue to see an upward trend in non-performing loans – the calculus is cold: Scale up aggressively through strategic M&A or prepare to become someone else’s synergy.
—Michael Abbott, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Siem Reap has recently added a $1.1-billion international airport that has turned this city into a regional hub for anyone interested in exploring not just Cambodia but wider Southeast Asia.
—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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However, only 120 appear on Google Maps for the entire state, meaning finding the restrooms may require a bit more local insight.—
Opheli Garcia Lawler,
Travel + Leisure,
14 July 2025
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All three were pronounced dead after they were taken to a local hospital.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
14 July 2025
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The most thrilling moments in my years of teaching drama have come when in the dialectical heat of class discussion, a new way of understanding a scene or a character’s psychology emerges from conflicting perspectives.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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The authors describe how in the face of grueling interrogations, Bonhoeffer and Dohnanyi drew on their formidable dialectical and legal training in a final act of resistance, deflecting the Gestapo’s accusations, threats, and verbal abuse.—
Peter Hoffmann,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2014
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Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Instead, the architecture of the city was part of my vernacular.—
Caitlin Woolsey,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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The undeniable stars are the curvaceous treehouses inspired by the endangered pangolins—the unusual, organic shape sets it apart from the typical tropical villa vernacular.—
Kissa Castaneda,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Proposition 12 is the colloquial term for the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.—
Alan Wooten,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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The strawberry moon is the colloquial name for June's full moon, a term originating from Native American tribes who marked the time when wild strawberries reached peak ripeness.—
Kate Nalepinski,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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Too informal with answers and language The team acknowledges that Gen Z’s use of slang is one of their defining traits.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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As Home Depot spread across America beginning in the 1980s, an informal economy of day laborers looking for work, mostly from Mexico and South America, grew around the company’s sprawling parking lots in cities and suburbs with large immigrant populations.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
18 Aug. 2022
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The 10-to-15-second video clips are a nonformal way to engage your customers and tell them about your products.—
Michael Plummer,
Forbes,
3 June 2022
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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