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Recent Examples of provincialism
This is provincialism: putting narrow interests over the well-being of not just current residents, but also the entire city.
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Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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
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Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for provincialism
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To dismiss animism as ignorant, superstitious, or atavistic is to partake in modern parochialism, and this serves the interests of those who, like the tree’s killers, delight in destroying life.—
Colin Cepuran,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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But what once provided insulation is now likely fostering parochialism.—
Harry G. Broadman,
Forbes.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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To qualify as critical regionalism, contemporary architecture had to use traditional tropes and local materials in unfamiliar variations, refuse to treat a site as just another blank slate, and use structure in an expressive way, visibly connected to a building’s purpose.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
28 Jan. 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
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To do so, the party will have to find an antidote for party insularity syndrome.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
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Tomkins was witness to the art world losing its old insularity and museum shows becoming celebrity gatherings and status symbols.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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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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Ther argument: The merger will merely create more big media at the expense of localism.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2026
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And, as the idiom goes, steel sharpens steel.—
Kyle Eustice,
SPIN,
7 Apr. 2026
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An idiom is a phrase that is common to a certain population.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The exhibit’s title is derived from a Spanish colloquialism.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Walther Collection is incredibly wide-ranging, and features ninth- and twentieth-century vernacular photographs from the United States, Europe, Colombia, and Mexico; as well as modern and contemporary art from Japan, Germany and other places.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
9 Apr. 2026
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The movement and field of preservation and architectural history has since broadened its purview to include the vernacular, the midcentury modern and even the postmodern, yet our data and policies in Chicago remain stuck in the past.—
Elizabeth Blasius,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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Michaels, who worked with Williams during the latter’s time in NXT, felt that Williams made a great babyface (a good guy in wrestling parlance), but needed to spend more time as a heel (bad guy).—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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In industry parlance, proponents of public power call for an electric distribution utility, which would own the local distribution grid and minimize the high costs — those delivery charges — of using higher voltage transmission lines.—
Craig D. Rose,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Provincialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provincialism. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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