regional

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Recent Examples of regional Ukrainian drones attacked Russia's northwestern port of Primorsk, setting fire to a vessel and a pumping station, the regional governor said. Barbara Erling, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 On Thursday, Ramdin continued to stress the regional entity’s limitations in deploying a security force to Port-au-Prince. Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 Both openings made local news headlines as thousands queued for hours in a bid to get regional exclusives and rare Labubu drops. Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025 Connections to bus service can be made at Civic Center Station and customers can connect to both bus and rail services at Union Station, including regional bus routes and the A Line to Denver International Airport. Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for regional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Kirsh sets the tone for the brainier side of this episode via two of this episode’s punchier scenes — ones where the dialectic dialogue really pops.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some are building chatbot therapists trained on dialectical behavior therapy.
    Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Cervantes’ writings mixes a high-style and an extraordinary realism, in ordinary life detail and colloquial dialogue.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This isn’t about a desire for simpler, colloquial language.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Protesters signaled their support for Karki through an informal vote on the messaging app Discord.
    Sugam Pokharel, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Bolsonaro's presidency was marked by intense skepticism about the pandemic and vaccines and his embrace of informal mining and land-clearing for cattle grazing, pushing deforestation rates in the Amazon rainforest to record highs.
    Ricardo Brito, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 17 Sep. 2025.

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