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the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set
the movie's locale is ambiguous, though the architecture and dress are suggestive of 19th-century Europe
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Recent Examples of locale
Upon moving to England, it was revealed the DeGeneres had welcomed the hair transformation along with her new locale.
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Hedy Phillips, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Most locales, especially cities, have byzantine land regulations and zoning restrictions that make homebuilding slow and expensive.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
The locale is connected to the mainland by a single causeway that is only accessible once the tides recede.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Our tax policies burden families and drive businesses to less taxing locales (hello, Virginia).
—Matt Morgan, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2025
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Hedy Phillips, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Most locales, especially cities, have byzantine land regulations and zoning restrictions that make homebuilding slow and expensive.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
The locale is connected to the mainland by a single causeway that is only accessible once the tides recede.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Our tax policies burden families and drive businesses to less taxing locales (hello, Virginia).
—Matt Morgan, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for locale
Recent Examples of Synonyms for locale
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Playing in 1,750 locations, the horror film sees director Steven Soderbergh armed with another typically eye-catching formal premise, this time shooting the entire film from the perspective of a ghost.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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Organization staff and volunteers fanned out across the Bakersfield area — to a Home Depot, a swap meet and other locations where the Border Patrol had been spotted.—
Rebecca Plevin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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This technology works best in business settings where problem-solving and planning are required like supply chains, emergency response and advanced robotics.—
Venkat Viswanathan,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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Unlike Olympic 3x3, which is staged in a half-court setting, Unrivaled players will run up and down a full court, though one with smaller dimensions than the WNBA’s.—
Sean Gregory,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
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Alongside these theaters Majid Al Futtaim also operates other pop-up venues which are even more quirky.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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More than 200 guests were invited to the nuptials, yet Sarah showed a nearly empty venue after waiting for an hour and a half in a now-viral video recently posted on TikTok.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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The friends’ raucous intimacy—in many scenes, a woman is either painting another’s toenails or waxing her legs—dissolves as most of the women leave the country.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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President Donald Trump’s pick for deputy secretary of education, Penny Schwinn, was once a prominent figure in Sacramento’s education scene.—
Jenavieve Hatch,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Jan. 2025
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Career officials discovered that their default mode of thinking about Britain’s place in the world was suspect, too.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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In the build-up, much of the discussion was about how bad the beating would be at a place that, even in the best of times, is a fixture that few United teams have looked forward to.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Macondo – its backlot site for the two biggest sets at least, including the biggest,capturing Macondo in its largest splendor from EP.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
20 Jan. 2025
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The pair later spent nearly half an hour in Section 60, the burial site for military personnel killed while fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, talking with families of soldiers who died in the 2021 Kabul airport bombing.—
WILL WEISSERT,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Locale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locale. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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