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Recent Examples of regionalism
But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Many Libyans argue that regionalism is exaggerated, and a recent survey from the University of Benghazi found that a majority of Libyans support a unified state.
—Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
—Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Many Libyans argue that regionalism is exaggerated, and a recent survey from the University of Benghazi found that a majority of Libyans support a unified state.
—Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
—Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
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This is where Sridhar Vembu’s passion for transnational localism comes into play.—
Melody Brue,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Excessive localism leads to huge inequalities between jurisdictions and strips property taxes of their function of providing homeowners with some protections against property value declines, Schleicher said.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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But the return of a mysterious young woman Sandra (Roxane Mesquida), a scowling blonde sporting a leg brace and a rock’n’roll air of disdain for her hometown’s provincialism, expands Naw’s horizons suddenly.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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This was the mid-nineteen-sixties, when Canada was coming out of that provincialism and into its own.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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Unleashing Wood has ushered in an exciting new phase for a widely influential band that has defined a state-of-the-art jazz idiom deeply engaged with other genres.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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Scientists analyzed recordings of three groups of chimpanzees living in the Ivory Coast and found that chimps can combine their hoots, grunts and calls in a similar way to how humans use idioms or change the order of words to build new phrases.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
11 May 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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The catchphrases Gómez Bolaños penned have also become ingrained in the vernacular of many countries.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Outlets including The Wall Street Journal and CNN identified the vernacular for this courtesy: a gimme.—
Matthew Purdy,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
Noun
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There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.—
Shekar Natarajan,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
28 May 2025
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Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
14 Mar. 2025
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Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
18 Apr. 2024
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In newspaper and wire service parlance, a dateline is the name of a place, typically written in capital letters and followed by an em dash, at the beginning of an article.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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In Israeli parlance, the prime minister is a freier—a sucker.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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