as in parochialism
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Noun
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Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.—
Jack Watling,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Mar. 2025 -
British parochialism finds echoes on the other side of the Channel, where European leaders, as a group, failed to sell the European way of life to their people.—
Camille Pecastaing,
Foreign Affairs,
13 July 2016
Noun
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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
Noun
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The April 1 special election is shaping up as a litmus test for the durability of Trump-era conservatism in a district where federal cuts hit close to home.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Nixon’s most vocal supporters who were part of a persistent strain of American conservatism believed Watergate was proof that the liberal establishment would do anything to destroy their leaders.—
Made by History,
TIME,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Insularity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insularity. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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