regionalism

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Recent Examples of regionalism But European regionalism has always also included ethnic and cultural elements connected to Christianity and whiteness. Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024 But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that. Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024 Many Libyans argue that regionalism is exaggerated, and a recent survey from the University of Benghazi found that a majority of Libyans support a unified state. Lindsay Benstead, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2013 Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed. Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for regionalism
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regionalism
Noun
  • This is where Sridhar Vembu’s passion for transnational localism comes into play.
    Melody Brue, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Excessive localism leads to huge inequalities between jurisdictions and strips property taxes of their function of providing homeowners with some protections against property value declines, Schleicher said.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Powered by nine proprietary learning methods, the platform integrates real-time cultural signals - from memes and slang to idioms and ancient lore.
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • But the nature of all idioms is that their meaning cannot be deduced from their components; the phrase kicked the bucket does not put the English speaker in the mind of an actual bucket, just as the word death does not remind him terribly of the letter D.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • This could involve helping systems learn colloquialisms and proper usages of terms.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • You would be forgiven for assuming this a playful colloquialism, perhaps revealing a tenderness to the hunt.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Outlets including The Wall Street Journal and CNN identified the vernacular for this courtesy: a gimme.
    Matthew Purdy, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Studio Collins Weir Studio Collins Weir designed this space to build on the warm materialism of the architecture and play to the agrarian vernacular of the Mill Valley, California, project.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no universal language—only tribal dialects.
    Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Because the characters are speaking a very distinctive local dialect, and that’s, of course, completely lost in translation.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • Ambitious and ultra-local, with pummeling percussion and fierce taunts in Nigerian pidgin, the album Rema was nominated for — last year’s Heis — boldly honored his roots and commanded respect.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Eventually, my family became adept at speaking a pidgin of English, Korean, and Japanese.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 18 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The number of rocket launches has increased dramatically in recent years, leading pilots and academics to warn about a growing danger in the air for flights that have only minutes to get out of harm’s way when a mishap — as explosions and other failures are called in industry parlance — occurs.
    Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 15 May 2025
  • Grace, in contemporary internet parlance, often means forgiveness.
    Dorothy Fortenberry, The Atlantic, 12 May 2025

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“Regionalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regionalism. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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