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regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism The concept is not unlike the literary trope of regionalism or local color genre—telling the same core story, just tailoring the language and presentation for new audiences and global regions. — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 25 Nov. 2025 But what was important to me was not their exact accents, but the regionalism and their bickering and bantering with one another. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025 Sarah Orne Jewett The 35th stamp in the Literary Arts series honors Sarah Orne Jewett, a foundational figure in American literary regionalism. — Greta Cross, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025 This national narrative sat in tension with a growing regionalism, seen in the rise of local historians and small museums. — JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for regionalism

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Both the ceramic and the chamoy traditions symbolize layers of culture as shaped by globalism and localism.

— Stephanie Shih June 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Some in congressional leadership feared that the growth of radio networks would create a monopoly by dominating the industry, stifle radio localism, and influence legislation—thereby limiting the public interest provision.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026

Definition of localism

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Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are.

— Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026
Trotsky was repulsed by the Georgian’s pockmarked face, his coarse manners, his provincialism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Feb. 2026

Definition of provincialism

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Fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic number at around seventy thousand at most, and the great majority of those who use it as their vernacular are elderly.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Among other things, the 1960s meetings known as Vatican II revolutionized the church’s relations with other Christians, Jews and people of other faiths and allowed Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular rather than Latin.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of vernacular

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Both Drake and Lütke rejected Canadian smallness, the reflex that says our cities are minor markets, our companies are acquisition targets, and our culture is a regional dialect of America's.

— Kumaran Nadesan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Mandarin is the language of formal schooling in China since middle school, and the result, as Li describes it, is a generation that speaks its ancestral dialect with growing unfamiliarity.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 July 2026

Definition of dialect

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Noe negotiated with Li Shan in a pidgin mix of French, English, and Cantonese as the workers fanned out on the wobbling platform, slipping on the slick bodies and shells of the catch.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The tree, called Nagafika in the local pidgin, was on the property when Aipen acquired it five years ago.

— Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026

Definition of pidgin

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In Warsh’s parlance, the market was playing the referee, not the ball.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Had Marsh taken that step — known in legal parlance as striking Basabe’s affirmative defenses — the jury would have only had to determine monetary damages against Basabe on each count, skipping the step of deciding whether to hold Basabe liable.

— Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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