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Recent Examples of regionalism
But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness.
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Many Libyans argue that regionalism is exaggerated, and a recent survey from the University of Benghazi found that a majority of Libyans support a unified state.
—Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
—Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
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Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024
But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
Many Libyans argue that regionalism is exaggerated, and a recent survey from the University of Benghazi found that a majority of Libyans support a unified state.
—Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013
Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
—Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
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This is where Sridhar Vembu’s passion for transnational localism comes into play.—
Melody Brue,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Excessive localism leads to huge inequalities between jurisdictions and strips property taxes of their function of providing homeowners with some protections against property value declines, Schleicher said.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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This was the mid-nineteen-sixties, when Canada was coming out of that provincialism and into its own.—
Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
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Such provincialism results in little or no coordination between ministries and undermines the capacity for broad strategic planning and implementation -- both of which are necessary to solve the country’s infrastructure and services deficits.—
Raad Alkadiri,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Mar. 2011
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Even names, idioms, and cultural references are sometimes exoticized or reduced to caricatures, reinforcing narrow or misleading representations.—
Diana Spehar,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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At that time, writers like Ashbery and Frank O’Hara were helping to establish a new idiom in American poetry, something serious without self-seriousness: the new poetry was open to the city’s rhythms, irreverent but tender—and clearly, if not openly, gay.—
David S. Wallace,
The New Yorker,
19 Mar. 2025
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This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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This term has made its way into the mainstream vernacular as well, and is often used as an insult.—
Samantha Mann,
Parents,
8 Apr. 2025
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Window frames and doors were painted red in the regional vernacular.—
Ann Abel,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Coogler wanted to ensure that neither of those characters would turn into caricatures, and had Jordan work with a dialect coach to aid in that and even asked twin filmmakers Logan and Noah Miller to consult on the film, helping him on the screenplay too.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Currently, African languages and dialects are underrepresented due to a lack of data and there are often biases in training data, such as facial recognition systems that struggle with darker skin tones.—
Nell Lewis,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2025
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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
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Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.—
Victoria Song,
The Verge,
18 Apr. 2024
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In British fashion parlance, the signature single flower, attended occasionally by a bit of lace, is called a fascinator.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The maneuver, in military parlance, is known as a force multiplier.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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