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Recent Examples of localism
Ther argument: The merger will merely create more big media at the expense of localism.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
Always bummed about something: the crowd, the wind, the hotel breakfast, the localism, the boards, the guy on the inside.
—John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.
—JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
Always bummed about something: the crowd, the wind, the hotel breakfast, the localism, the boards, the guy on the inside.
—John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.
—JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for localism
Noun
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Wood saw regionalism as the New Deal in visual form: Both affirmed the country’s varied livelihoods and landscapes.—
John P. Murphy,
ARTnews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.—
Richard Olsen,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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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
Noun
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The Suez Canal incident of March 2021 revealed the same pattern in a different idiom.—
Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Probably because at the time many of the time signatures and chordal progressions that Miles used were over the head of a young guitar player still functioning in the blues and folk idioms.—
Steve Baltin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2026
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“Localism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/localism. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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