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Recent Examples of regional
These industry requirements, in turn, offer essential guidance on the skills and competencies that regional workforce development efforts must address.
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Alison Griffin, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
What to know Fairfield National, which won the Metro region championship last Friday, 12-1 over New York, is the first team from Connecticut to win the regional final and advance to the Little League World Series since Fairfield American did it in 2017.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
Advanced democracies could also adopt immigration policies tied to demonstrable regional needs.
—Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
The debt was on the regional sports network and non-recourse to Sphere Entertainment.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Alison Griffin, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
What to know Fairfield National, which won the Metro region championship last Friday, 12-1 over New York, is the first team from Connecticut to win the regional final and advance to the Little League World Series since Fairfield American did it in 2017.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
Advanced democracies could also adopt immigration policies tied to demonstrable regional needs.
—Alexander Kustov, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2025
The debt was on the regional sports network and non-recourse to Sphere Entertainment.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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The search for Top involved over 50 personnel, including local police units and partner agencies, and employed ATVs, drones, and helicopter support, police said in an update on July 31.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Here's more about McConnell's response and local farmers' reactions from politics reporter Lucas Aulbach.—
Bailey Loosemore,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Aug. 2025
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Some are building chatbot therapists trained on dialectical behavior therapy.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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The most thrilling moments in my years of teaching drama have come when in the dialectical heat of class discussion, a new way of understanding a scene or a character’s psychology emerges from conflicting perspectives.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Platforms powered by compounders offering medications Big Pharma never prioritized: low-cost combo topicals, precise dosing, and nonstandard formats that reflect real-world patient needs.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The buttons for switching between these sections are across the bottom of the interface, which is itself nonstandard (most people would look to the top of the interface).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
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The musical tastes and vernacular of Abbie and Leila also come from that era of Martin's life.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
31 July 2025
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There are terms of affection for groups of players like the Busby Babes or Fergie’s Fledglings, but these were coined and used by journalists and not used in everyday vernacular.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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But the colloquial use of the term has prompted criticism from some.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
20 July 2025
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Proposition 12 is the colloquial term for the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative.—
Alan Wooten,
The Washington Examiner,
28 June 2025
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For years, stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to a fiat currency, operated in a patchwork of state laws, informal guidance, and regulation by enforcement.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Valencia had been killed in 2009, before Ricky Pike and his parents had thrown themselves into organizing aid for other families of homicide victims in an informal network of logistical help, money for flowers or transportation and other support.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Aug. 2025
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
18 Aug. 2022
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The 10-to-15-second video clips are a nonformal way to engage your customers and tell them about your products.—
Michael Plummer,
Forbes,
3 June 2022
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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