insularism

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insularism
Noun
  • That insularity — reinforced by government policy — could slow the spread of its cultural exports abroad.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Saul Steinberg’s artwork captured the insularity of Manhattan, the blithe sense of locals that not much beyond the island really exists nor matters.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Advertisement Today, in popular narratives of the civil rights movement, journalists are remembered as heroes who braved the South’s violent parochialism to shine a light on those confronting Jim Crow segregation.
    Made by History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
    Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Ghaywan’s script is explicit but never priggish in its moral standing, letting the outstanding performances drive home the perils of bigotry more than any grandstanding dialogue.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The right is being horrifyingly plain in bleating their bigotry, but they’re also lost in linguistic obscurities.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the American College of Radiology now recommends annual MRI in addition to mammograms for women with dense breasts seeking supplemental screening, barriers to MRI use include lack of access, high-cost and patient intolerance, according to the authors.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This powerful coming-of-age documentary profiles these remarkable teenagers while also depicting the everyday advocacy that empowers individuals and stands up to intolerance.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That — metaphorically and literally — is earned dogmatism, the risk that expertise breeds rigidity in our thinking and decision-making.
    Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare.
    Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This provincialism was identified as such and condemned by Merlin Klee, who had been a Freedom Rider as well as a Catholic before joining the community.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This is provincialism: putting narrow interests over the well-being of not just current residents, but also the entire city.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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“Insularism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insularism. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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