localism
noun
lo·cal·ism
ˈlō-kə-ˌli-zəm 
1
a
: a local idiom
b
: a local peculiarity of speaking or acting
2
: affection or partiality for a particular place : sectionalism
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And the settlement, reached on Sept. 20, does not outline new strategies for responding to incidents of harassment, bullying or localism.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The summer light of the Tetons is a character all its own, and the film nails the details of skid life (multiple jobs, insecure housing, the performative localism of second home owners).
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
Burbank and Cooper, for whom empires subsist as amazing structures of large-scale governance, accommodating difference without (or until) falling to forces of localism or alternative empires, have a different perspective on collapse.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
But the localism of France at the time should not be underestimated.
—Arjun Chowdhury, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The summer light of the Tetons is a character all its own, and the film nails the details of skid life (multiple jobs, insecure housing, the performative localism of second home owners).
—Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024
Burbank and Cooper, for whom empires subsist as amazing structures of large-scale governance, accommodating difference without (or until) falling to forces of localism or alternative empires, have a different perspective on collapse.
—Charles S. Maier, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
But the localism of France at the time should not be underestimated.
—Arjun Chowdhury, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
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localism
noun
lo·cal·ism
ˈlō-kə-ˌliz-əm
: a local peculiarity of speech or acting
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