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Recent Examples of parochialism
This proposal, coupled with the disincentive at the federal level that increased the price of the visas from $215 to $100,000, shows a parochialism that does not foster open and productive inquiry.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.
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Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
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Jack Watling,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Mar. 2025
But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
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Parul Sehgal,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2024
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.
—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
—
Jack Watling,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Mar. 2025
But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
—
Parul Sehgal,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parochialism
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Reviewers are screened for prior collaborations and conflicts of interest with applicants, panels are structured to prevent disciplinary insularity, and majority self-citation is flagged as a disqualifying bias (the OMB rule’s citations are almost entirely self-cited).
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The insularity of You Follow Me makes the album beguiling.
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.
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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.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone created a show directly informed by millennials and Gen Xers growing up in a culture of gun violence, fear, moralizing, bigotry, war and division.
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Gabbard's team and a spokesperson for SIF called the reporting anti-Hindu religious bigotry.
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When authenticity becomes uncompromising, candor turns belligerent, consistency becomes rigid, or principled decision-making morphs into dogmatism, even the best intentions can backfire.
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By staying so close to black metal’s core sound, Marchenko does more to undermine the dogmatism—both racial and aesthetic—of Vikernes and his ilk than a more obviously experimental project might.
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“Parochialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parochialism. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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