regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism 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 Football, for all its unabashed ties to virulent tribalism or staunch regionalism, makes those inherent differences fairly difficult to mend. Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023 The installation, which will be on display until September 2024, is structured by themes including origins, innovation, sounds of hip-hop, fashion, entrepreneurialism, media, community and regionalism. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for regionalism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
Noun
  • The vast sums of capital that flow through the former provide the financial basis for the localism of the latter, helping to preserve the image of a land unspoiled by the vampiric thirst of capitalism and the homogenizing cultural pressures of globalization.
    Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • And the settlement, reached on Sept. 20, does not outline new strategies for responding to incidents of harassment, bullying or localism.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Such provincialism results in little or no coordination between ministries and undermines the capacity for broad strategic planning and implementation -- both of which are necessary to solve the country’s infrastructure and services deficits.
    Raad Alkadiri, Foreign Affairs, 3 Mar. 2011
  • These developments are good news for the overall stability of the western Balkans, a region still mired in sectarianism and provincialism.
    Jasmin Mujanovic, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • While often used sarcastically to mock true believers, the idiom reflects Italy’s enduring ambiguity toward Fascism, even 80 years after its fall.
    Mattia Ferraresi, airmail.news, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Black communities are usually at the creative vanguard, from Renaissance art movements to fashion and even colloquialisms.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Dishes like orange chicken and General Tso’s chicken became part of the greater American culinary vernacular in the woks of the Panda restaurants.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • In the 53 years since the Baker Act took effect, the statute authored by late lawmaker Maxine Baker has entered the Florida vernacular as a verb.
    Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That potential exists even moreso in soccer than in most other North American pro sports, given the limitless potential for mixing of languages, accents and even disparity of meanings based on dialect.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Madison, who won the Oscar for Best Actress, learned Russian, worked with a dialect coach to master the Brooklyn accent, shadowed real dancers, and even installed a pole in her living room for the role.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Teni’s music is often optimistic, if not in its lively production, then in her lyrics about the trials and triumphs of love and life, sung in Nigerian pidgin, Yoruba, and its Ondo dialect.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • In business parlance, intent could be reflected through transparently communicating the policies, systems and controls implemented for data privacy and ethics, and also by communicating any gaps and how they will be addressed.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The financial brokers who handle such trades have demanded that exporters hand over more cash toward settling up their losses — a margin call, in financial parlance.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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