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Recent Examples of regional
The latest analysis from Consumer Reports looked at rotisserie chicken from four national retailers and six regional grocers and evaluated each option based on the criteria of taste, nutrition and potential exposure to chemicals from plastic packaging.
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Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
25 June 2026
Reversing decades of corporate consolidation means utilizing predictive demand technology to empower regional operators.
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Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Funds from the sale will allow the YMCA to accelerate its $100-million regional reinvestment plan in other branches.
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Charlotte Observer,
25 June 2026
Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for regional
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
25 June 2026
Reversing decades of corporate consolidation means utilizing predictive demand technology to empower regional operators.
—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Funds from the sale will allow the YMCA to accelerate its $100-million regional reinvestment plan in other branches.
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Charlotte Observer,
25 June 2026
Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas.
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Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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Before then, such cases were prosecuted under a patchwork of local ordinances that varied across the country.
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In Los Angeles, Wakasa said, a DSA mayor would be expected to build more public transit, strengthen protections for renters, fight for workers’ rights, raise the minimum wage and defend local immigrants from the federal government.
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The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.
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Firpi concluded that Saenz should receive dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, an intensive therapy originally developed for self-harming women with borderline personality disorder that is now also used to treat PTSD, eating disorders and substance use.
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This can even affect nonstandard English speakers or people who speak a variety of English that differs from the mainstream varieties privileged in courts and schools.
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Diamonds with nonstandard colors are more difficult to value, as the principle of supply and demand applies here.
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The Homeric poems have been translated into English and other vernacular languages for only the past 400 years.
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His Bernstein had visceral, vernacular punch; his Verdi was ardent and spry; his Britten had the right textural grit; his Mozart unfurled with complicated grace.
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Its name refers to the colloquial term once used for Papaya—paw-paw.
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The Solons name refers to an ancient Greek lawmaker, whose name later became a colloquial term for wise legislators, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Most of the people on this list worked nonliterary jobs before becoming a successful writer.
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Here the enduring wisdom of Indian spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ojai’s informal patron saint, serves even to hold a recent incursion of ultra-rich to account.
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These employee-to-owner pipelines and apprenticeship-to-owner transitions marked informal forms of employee ownership.
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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.
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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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