regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism The shift toward regionalism and local priorities over global cooperation adds further strain, complicating transactions across international borders and increasing the demand for more flexible payment infrastructures. Victor Orlovski, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025 In its day the novel did not in fact seem to reflect a number of contemporary concerns—politics, regionalism, the search for equality and social justice—or to address historical realities. Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025 So my focus is on regionalism and international tax developments. Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness. Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for regionalism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
Noun
  • Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Moreover, Skydance reaffirms its commitment to localism as a core component of the public interest standard.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • This is provincialism: putting narrow interests over the well-being of not just current residents, but also the entire city.
    Chicago Tribune, 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
Noun
  • He’s been talking about replacing it with a permanent ballroom for a long time, in his usual Dictator Chic idiom.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Aug. 2025
  • This could be in Elsbeth’s usual light and fizzy idiom or perhaps a brief foray into Scandi-noir.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For much of the past 1,000 years, Yiddish was spoken by three quarters of the world’s Jews — a Germanic vernacular, seasoned with Hebrew, Slavic and Romance vocabulary, that bridged polyglot Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe and followed them to the far corners of the diaspora.
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2025
  • Interior richness is a part of quiet, part of one’s own interiority creating a vernacular that’s not overtly storytelling but is about the unspeakable, the silence, the quiet that Tina Campt and Fred Moten and others speak about.
    Caitlin Woolsey, Artforum, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Pat picked up Spanish and the local dialect of the region.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • Such expressions of moral clarity are rare, though, in an age of confusion and endlessly contested facts that has been harnessed by the Netanyahu government, which speaks a fluent dialect of the MAGA language of politics.
    Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • One part of this process, known in Senate parlance as reconciliation, provisions legislation being moved in this manner to increase the federal deficit beyond the next 10-year budget window.
    Andrea Ruth, The Washington Examiner, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In Wall Street parlance, the float refers to the number of shares available to the public.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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