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Recent Examples of regional
The Texas high school girls soccer regional final round is here.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2025
In his first season after transferring from Bowman, Pollard has helped the Cardinals win their first regional title since their Class 4A state championship season in 2007.
—Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Beginning April 4, Merit TV will air nine hours of TCL programming each weekend, featuring live bouts between 12 teams across four regional divisions representing major U.S. markets.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Late on March 19, Russian forces unleashed the most intense drone attack yet on Ukraine's central regional capital.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2025
In his first season after transferring from Bowman, Pollard has helped the Cardinals win their first regional title since their Class 4A state championship season in 2007.
—Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Beginning April 4, Merit TV will air nine hours of TCL programming each weekend, featuring live bouts between 12 teams across four regional divisions representing major U.S. markets.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
Late on March 19, Russian forces unleashed the most intense drone attack yet on Ukraine's central regional capital.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
Adjective
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Although the premium hospitality OVG Hospitality already provides in Las Vegas, Phoenix, London and Abu Dhabi resonated with the Lightning ownership, Granger said that a desire to put a local spin on Amalie’s food and beverage offerings helped win the bid.—
Jason Clinkscales,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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About midway through, his character, searching for a trafficked young woman, poses as a drug dealer looking to score a connection with a local kingpin holding court in the backroom of a biker bar.—
Donald Liebenson,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Ives tried to recover this lost ideal of an America that, for him, was always dialectical.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2025
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As a student of astrology and as a Gemini sun—curious, quick-witted, charming with a penchant for dialectical analysis—who better to engage in this purely scientific endeavor?—
Maya Layne,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Generated code may lack context, leading to nonstandard or vulnerable code.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This therapist speaks in a very specific kind of vernacular.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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With Elordi’s star on the rise, that can only be a matter of time, even if the slangy vernacular of the wartime sections will require subtitles.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Bloomberg has gone so far as to report that Zaslav is in early, informal talks regarding potential successors.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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The expectation has always been that the president would behave in a certain way, abiding by a generations-long yet informal agreement about the role and discretion of the administrative state.—
Jay Cost,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 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 15 Apr. 2025.
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