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
  • Ther argument: The merger will merely create more big media at the expense of localism.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Always bummed about something: the crowd, the wind, the hotel breakfast, the localism, the boards, the guy on the inside.
    John Winsor, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • If the assignment is to translate something from a foreign language, there are plenty of tools and resources that can do it for you, including by recognizing and figuratively translating idioms.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 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 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
  • The first episode of season three really served as a soft reboot for Red Dwarf, long before the term entered common vernacular.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The gambit that Shelley somehow comes to possess her fictional creation is sustained, as Ida alternates between a very American dialect and a more high-toned British accent.
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Having a few weeks of rehearsal ahead of filming helped McEwen and Kidman to establish the similarities in their performances, as did work with Kidman’s dialect coach.
    Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • In baseball parlance, Naylor looked runnerish.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.

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