regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism 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 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 See All Example Sentences for regionalism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
Noun
  • In his new role, Vembu will focus fully on R&D initiatives, as well as his personal mission of rural development, which fits neatly into the company’s transnational localism strategy (more on that later).
    Melody Brue, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The next trope, of course, is the whole localism thing.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • There is a French idiom that says when something is so easy, it can be done with ‘les doigts dans le nez’ — the fingers in the nose.
    Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Since scammers may be non-native English speakers, poor grammar or unusual vernacular can also be a tip off of someone taking on a fake identity.
    Rachel Hale, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Older internet vernacular involved quoting memes or making references to nerd culture, but brain rot offers strange sentence constructions and rhetorical tics with a broad range of possible applications.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Similarly, when Mari speaks on the phone to her clients, her Miami dialect drops completely.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Declan has been reading up on local lore, revealing that there are 13 different dialects in the area, which also boasts a church made entirely of bundled hay.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Brisk, truncated treatments are normally the parlance of pop mavens whose freshness dates rapidly expire and who seek to hide deficiencies.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Kathy Webster, Littleton Mark of a caring nation DEI is common parlance.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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