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Recent Examples of regional
That’s why GoodRx has partnered with over 70,000 pharmacies nationwide, from national chains to regional grocers, and recently launched its Community Link program for independent pharmacies.
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Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Ocean Winds’ new project in Occitanie, France, is a significant milestone for the global floating wind industry, demonstrating technology readiness, regional collaboration, and environmental integration.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Lease deals can be highly regional and vary.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
This heart-forward look at a cusp-#MeToo moment playing out in a Southern high school is soon to close on the Great White Way, but is hopefully coming to a regional theatre near you.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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Wendy Barnes, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Ocean Winds’ new project in Occitanie, France, is a significant milestone for the global floating wind industry, demonstrating technology readiness, regional collaboration, and environmental integration.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Lease deals can be highly regional and vary.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
This heart-forward look at a cusp-#MeToo moment playing out in a Southern high school is soon to close on the Great White Way, but is hopefully coming to a regional theatre near you.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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Just as a developer is trying to move ahead with plans to raze the historic Excelsior Club in west Charlotte, then rebuild a near replica, a local museum CEO is trying to make the case for saving the structure.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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The projects received millions in state and local tax incentives after promising to create thousands of new jobs.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 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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See a mental health professional: If accessible to you, therapy approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can build mental and emotional resilience.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
19 June 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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For such an insistence on democracy, the pavilion is curiously tepid in its politics, save for a kind of vernacular populism and some PBS-esque nods to the Gee’s Bend quilters.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Once again, his use of vernacular and social media address appeared to be mocking the President’s own style.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Cervantes’ writings mixes a high-style and an extraordinary realism, in ordinary life detail and colloquial dialogue.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t about a desire for simpler, colloquial language.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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Even as liberal-seeming Amir invites Yusuf to join the Muslim Association, an informal organization of male Arab landowners, Yusuf’s father is killed in a night-time confrontation with the settlers.—
Ritesh Mehta,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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The only time this percentage has been higher since City joined the informal ranks of that group was in 2009, at the outset of their Abu Dhabi project.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 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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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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