provincialism

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Recent Examples of provincialism Whatever your own reaction, the open-ended nature of Serra’s approach flies in the face of what people have been conditioned to expect from today’s non-fiction cinema, much of which exists to challenge the audience for their provincialism while flattering them for their empathy. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 June 2025 But the return of a mysterious young woman Sandra (Roxane Mesquida), a scowling blonde sporting a leg brace and a rock’n’roll air of disdain for her hometown’s provincialism, expands Naw’s horizons suddenly. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 May 2025 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 These developments are good news for the overall stability of the western Balkans, a region still mired in sectarianism and provincialism. Jasmin Mujanovic, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2017 See All Example Sentences for provincialism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provincialism
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
  • To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Hovering above all this is a related belief in promoting regionalism as a hedge against the flattening influence of corporate-media consolidation.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2025
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
  • 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
  • Moreover, Skydance reaffirms its commitment to localism as a core component of the public interest standard.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, analytical software has revolutionized linguistic inquiry, enabling greater understanding of the ways language works—when, how, and why words break out; the specific contexts for expressions and idioms.
    Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Nonnas There's a saying that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and Joe Scaravella (Vince Vaughn) of 2025's Nonnas is the perfect depiction of the idiom.
    Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What started out as an advertising slogan for Apple more than 15 years ago has morphed into somewhat of a modern day colloquialism: There should be an app for that.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many of the terms are Gen Z and Alpha vernacular influenced by evolving social media trends.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • In academic vernacular, this refers to the gap between stated and revealed preferences.
    Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There are plenty of roles available if Harry wants to work inside Disneyland or Disney California Adventure as a cast member, Disney parlance for employees.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • In the parlance of the AI field, the emotional states are linear directions.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Provincialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provincialism. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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