regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism 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 To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem. Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for regionalism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
Noun
  • 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
  • Ther argument: The merger will merely create more big media at the expense of localism.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • This provincialism was identified as such and condemned by Merlin Klee, who had been a Freedom Rider as well as a Catholic before joining the community.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • An idiom is a phrase that is common to a certain population.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.
    George Skelton, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The exhibit’s title is derived from a Spanish colloquialism.
    Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Walther Collection is incredibly wide-ranging, and features ninth- and twentieth-century vernacular photographs from the United States, Europe, Colombia, and Mexico; as well as modern and contemporary art from Japan, Germany and other places.
    News Desk, Artforum, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The movement and field of preservation and architectural history has since broadened its purview to include the vernacular, the midcentury modern and even the postmodern, yet our data and policies in Chicago remain stuck in the past.
    Elizabeth Blasius, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The British colonial name of New Cut was different from other nearby creeks—Wadmalaw, Bohicket, Leadenwah, Stono—all named in Indigenous dialects.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Today, many of those words fill out the default dialect of an entire generation — regardless of race, region or class — living online.
    Moriah Humiston, NBC news, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The children speak in a sort of wise and frightening pidgin.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Rosalyn speaks French, pidgin Arabic and is currently learning to fly a plane.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • But in modern English parlance, mantra has come to mean a person or group’s representative phrase, similar to a slogan or a watchword.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In military parlance, this usually translates to one attack on a specific target that might involve multiple weapons.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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