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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Ther argument: The merger will merely create more big media at the expense of localism.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2026
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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
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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
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This new flood of venture-capitalist-as-influencer platforms has promoted and naturalized a distinctive military-industrial idiom that closely—and strangely—apes certain twentieth-century artistic tropes.—
Simon Denny,
Artforum,
20 Apr. 2026
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And, as the idiom goes, steel sharpens steel.—
Kyle Eustice,
SPIN,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The exhibit’s title is derived from a Spanish colloquialism.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The children speak in a sort of wise and frightening pidgin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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Rosalyn speaks French, pidgin Arabic and is currently learning to fly a plane.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Or in Cowboys parlance, think Darren Woodson.—
Bill Jones,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Michaels, who worked with Williams during the latter’s time in NXT, felt that Williams made a great babyface (a good guy in wrestling parlance), but needed to spend more time as a heel (bad guy).—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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