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Recent Examples of regional
Southlake Carroll reached the regional semifinals, where it was eliminated by Denton Guyer, an eventual state runner-up.
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2025
Miami advanced to the regional tournament semifinals Wednesday with a 3-1 win over LAFC, Messi scoring twice.
—Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The investment was about $3.55 billion, according to Newsweek research—a mixture of direct and indirect grants and loans from the Chinese state and its banks, regional development banks and the states themselves.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The transfer portal opened for women’s basketball players in the middle of the NCAA Tournament regional rounds on March 25 and will remain open until April 23, so the Huskies immediately began scouting potential additions when their season finally ended.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
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Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2025
Miami advanced to the regional tournament semifinals Wednesday with a 3-1 win over LAFC, Messi scoring twice.
—Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The investment was about $3.55 billion, according to Newsweek research—a mixture of direct and indirect grants and loans from the Chinese state and its banks, regional development banks and the states themselves.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
The transfer portal opened for women’s basketball players in the middle of the NCAA Tournament regional rounds on March 25 and will remain open until April 23, so the Huskies immediately began scouting potential additions when their season finally ended.
—Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
Adjective
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Today, the two-story adobe residence is a local, state and national historic landmark offering year-round exhibitions, educational programs and cultural events that explore the many identities of the West.—
Jasmine Desiree,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Ensuring fair labor practices, supporting local communities, and fostering inclusive growth are integral to a truly sustainable supply chain.—
Richard Howells,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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This is the astonishing dialectical power of the moment.—
D. Graham Burnett,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2025
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There are plenty of styles associated with therapy, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, humanistic therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and many others.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The only way to give riders the assurance their helmet is safe is to ensure that nonstandard helmets don’t reach the market.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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All forms of nonstandard helmets are unsafe helmets.—
Tanya Mohn,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to the musical reconstruction, McBurney has been making a contemporary English version of the libretto, with the translator Hannah Whitley, that preserves the original’s vernacular.—
Jeffrey Arlo Brown,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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This therapist speaks in a very specific kind of vernacular.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
27 Mar. 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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These open-branching shrubs make an informal hedge that requires little pruning.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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In an informal presentation Monday to the Planning and Zoning Commission, Evjen and his consultants said the project would cluster the condos and parking to provide acreage for a wide conservation easement around the pond.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 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 2 May. 2025.
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