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Recent Examples of regional
All finalists gain access to potential Basque Country funding of up to €500,000 ($585,000) and free incubation space at regional innovation hubs.
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
With this new regional edition, North America now has its own dedicated spotlight.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
New York currently offers a base 30% incentive with regional step ups and the fresh pot of $100 million is geared specifically towards independent productions.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Trends observed include increases in hot extremes and extreme single-day precipitation events, declines in cold extremes, regional shifts in annual precipitation, warming of the Earth's oceans, a decrease in ocean pH, rising sea levels, and an increase in wildfire severity.
—Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
With this new regional edition, North America now has its own dedicated spotlight.
—Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025
New York currently offers a base 30% incentive with regional step ups and the fresh pot of $100 million is geared specifically towards independent productions.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Trends observed include increases in hot extremes and extreme single-day precipitation events, declines in cold extremes, regional shifts in annual precipitation, warming of the Earth's oceans, a decrease in ocean pH, rising sea levels, and an increase in wildfire severity.
—Connor Giffin, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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Most offer free trials, though access may vary depending on local ABC availability.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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The storm was expected to churn through China and along the northern borders of Vietnam and Laos, according to local weather officials.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
24 Sep. 2025
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The intellectual premise of the movie—true to Greaves’s modernist spirit—arises from the practical premise of its production, namely, a fusion of celebration and cerebration, unity of purpose and dialectical confrontations.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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Kirsh sets the tone for the brainier side of this episode via two of this episode’s punchier scenes — ones where the dialectic dialogue really pops.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
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For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Once again, his use of vernacular and social media address appeared to be mocking the President’s own style.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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But unlike the evolution of colloquial language, which is largely arbitrary, the evolution of scientific terms must reflect our current understanding of reality.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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In a market where there is a colloquial term for consumers who want their spirits bottled at the highest strength possible (proof hounds), this low-strength whiskey is a bold move.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.—
Benjamin Nathans
September 24,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 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 1 Oct. 2025.
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