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Recent Examples of regional
Behind the scenes Monro is engaged in the provision of automotive undercar repair and tire services in the United States, operating more than 1,100 repair shops and tire dealers in 32 states under multiple regional brands.
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Additionally, one person was injured in the Poltava region and another person was injured in the neighboring Kyiv region, according to the respective regional military administrations.
—Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
Seven regional department stores, which are in Angers, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Mans, Limoges, Orléans, and Reims, will be rebranded by SGM and no longer carry the banner of Galeries Lafayette.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Long-haul international flights are currently exempt from cuts, while regional flights and less-full flights face the highest cancellation risks.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2025
Additionally, one person was injured in the Poltava region and another person was injured in the neighboring Kyiv region, according to the respective regional military administrations.
—Oleksiy Pshemyskiy, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2025
Seven regional department stores, which are in Angers, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Mans, Limoges, Orléans, and Reims, will be rebranded by SGM and no longer carry the banner of Galeries Lafayette.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
Long-haul international flights are currently exempt from cuts, while regional flights and less-full flights face the highest cancellation risks.
—Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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All the victims were outside of the church and attending a funeral, according to local law enforcement authorities.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Jan. 2026
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Ceisler has spoken out against the federal 287(g) program, which allows local law enforcement agencies to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and carry out certain immigration enforcement duties.—
Eva Andersen,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Urbano’s work evokes a complex past that hasn’t yet occurred and a future that already has—a present that has always already been, to employ the idea of non-dialectical temporality favored by philosopher Maurice Blanchot.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
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Julia also underwent intensive therapy, including DBT [dialectical behavior therapy], especially after their daughter was born.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Nov. 2025
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Maintaining hydration during nonstandard work hours is crucial for good health and minimizing the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption.—
Pamela Assid,
Verywell Health,
5 Nov. 2025
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WindBorne also plans to use live flight data to allow its weather balloons to autonomously avoid planes, even if planes are flying at a nonstandard altitude, according to the company’s statement.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Upside Down, a dark, gooey parallel universe of Hawkins, and its predatory demogorgons became part of their middle school vernacular.—
Lorraine Ali,
Boston Herald,
30 Nov. 2025
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In vernacular languages up to the early modern period in Europe, cognates of conversatio often conveyed a sense of physical closeness: gathering or dwelling together.—
Lamorna Ash,
The Dial,
25 Nov. 2025
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The colloquial term Paczki Day is used for Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.—
Jelissa Burns,
Freep.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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In this context, something as small and lightweight as a pair of earrings could serve as the colloquial glue that united people under one national identity, at a moment in history when destabilization and separation were the modi operandi of a country sharing a border with Ukraine.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
30 Dec. 2025
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During the 2020 cycle, disinformation targeting Black voters has been spreading through informal channels on social media, according to a report by NBC News.—
David Smiley,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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The informal meeting represents the first layer in the appeals process the district is entitled to avail itself of, Lecholop said.—
Silas Allen,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Nov. 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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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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