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Recent Examples of localism
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.
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Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
The summer light of the Tetons is a character all its own, and the film nails the details of skid life (multiple jobs, insecure housing, the performative localism of second home owners).
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
Related Stories Inspired in part by Australian New Wave cinema and in part by John Cheever’s short story The Swimmer and the subsequent 1968 Burt Lancaster film, The Surfer also pulls from rampant localism in the surf community that has been documented from Palos Verdes, California, to Australia.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
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Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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
The summer light of the Tetons is a character all its own, and the film nails the details of skid life (multiple jobs, insecure housing, the performative localism of second home owners).
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
Related Stories Inspired in part by Australian New Wave cinema and in part by John Cheever’s short story The Swimmer and the subsequent 1968 Burt Lancaster film, The Surfer also pulls from rampant localism in the surf community that has been documented from Palos Verdes, California, to Australia.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for localism
Noun
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Notwithstanding the resurgence of regionalism in international affairs, none of the contributors expect the five American countries to form a coherent Western Hemisphere lobby within the G-20.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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The shift toward regionalism and local priorities over global cooperation adds further strain, complicating transactions across international borders and increasing the demand for more flexible payment infrastructures.—
Victor Orlovski,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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This was the mid-nineteen-sixties, when Canada was coming out of that provincialism and into its own.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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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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Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Localism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/localism. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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