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Recent Examples of regionalism
Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
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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
And one of the best things about American independent movies, especially in the modern age of first-person filmmaking, is their regionalism.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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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
And one of the best things about American independent movies, especially in the modern age of first-person filmmaking, is their regionalism.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Knowing the correct four-word idioms is a sign of education.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Feb. 2025
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Glover’s score — for rock band, piano and acoustic strings — evokes pop idioms while politely sidestepping direct quotation.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Every language has its dialects, and each dialect can have its unique spin on colloquialisms.—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
24 Jan. 2025
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There is even a colloquialism for those who curry favor among the moneyed on the island of Palm Beach.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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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
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In the past decade, underground electronic and experimental scenes in Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Ho Chi Minh, Shanghai, Taipei, Bangkok—the list goes on—began developing their own vernacular and forming a network within Asia.—
James Gui,
Pitchfork,
5 Oct. 2024
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Director Brady Corbet denied the allegations, saying that stars Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones worked for months with a dialect coach to perfect their characters’ Hungarian accents, and that only the Hungarian portions of the film were adjusted manually using Respeecher technology.—
Zoe G. Phillips,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Feb. 2025
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In his interview with Red Shark News, Jancsó said AI was used to tweak certain parts of the Hungarian dialect spoken by stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist for the sake of accuracy.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 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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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
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My problem is when breaking is used — to borrow pro-wrestling parlance — to create a cheap pop.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Does Slot’s casual use of xG in a press conference suggest that advanced metrics have become fully embedded in football’s mainstream parlance?—
Mark Carey,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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