as in small
not broad or open in views or opinions
the parochial pastimes of the people in that rural farm town
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Recent Examples of parochial
Slipknot have since gone multi-platinum, founded their own music festival, and stretched far beyond their parochial metal scene into persistent cultural relevance.
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Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
It’s driven by Netanyahu’s narrow, parochial, domestic political calculations, driven by messianism and, frankly, the fascistic and often genocidal outlook of his more extreme right-wing partners.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
How can a place be at once so cosmopolitan and so parochial?
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Uniforms were only associated with parochial and private schools until the late 1980s, but public schools began piloting them as well, allowing plaid’s influence in American classrooms to spread.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
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Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
It’s driven by Netanyahu’s narrow, parochial, domestic political calculations, driven by messianism and, frankly, the fascistic and often genocidal outlook of his more extreme right-wing partners.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
How can a place be at once so cosmopolitan and so parochial?
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Uniforms were only associated with parochial and private schools until the late 1980s, but public schools began piloting them as well, allowing plaid’s influence in American classrooms to spread.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parochial
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Make time for a drink at Sid Gold’s Request Room, a piano karaoke bar, as well as Paramita Sound, a record shop with a small in-house bar and performance space.Monica Mendal, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024
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Buying additional lottery tickets does increase a person's odds of winning, but the increase may be small and not necessarily worth it.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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My understanding has always been that the relic trade is loosely tolerated by the powers that be (many of whom have some pretty choice relics of their own), because one of the sneakiest ways authoritarian societies thrive is by letting their subjects get away with petty rebellions.Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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As our profile lays out, the record reveals Billy Wagner as a blustery, bigger-than-life figure who engaged in petty crime and coached his family to do the same.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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The 30-stock Dow eked out a narrow gain for its fifth winning day, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite ended the session just below the flatline.Pia Singh, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
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Real life is worse than the games After the bloodbath in the first game, the players vote by a narrow margin to end the games and leave without any money.Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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That turmoil in Latin America shaped this course of events, even if indirectly, challenges the assumption that Latin America is too peripheral, too insular, and too small in population terms to exert much influence in world events.Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
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The insular island is best known for staging an annual pageant that depicts the cannibalistic murder of four English soldiers — and believe it or not, the locals who stage this play aren’t thrilled to see four English guests in their town.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Dec. 2024
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Under the command of white engineer James Moncrief, this provincial, or locally recruited, unit was tasked with fatigue duties, such as constructing fortifications and transporting supplies.Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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An investigation by Quebec provincial police led to the arrest of 26 individuals, including the ringleader behind the scheme, Richard Valliere.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The partition triggered mass migration and sectarian violence that killed hundreds of thousands of people, including Singh's grandfather.Sushmita Pathak, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
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Fears fed by decades of sectarian propaganda won’t dissipate all at once, but the new government can help assuage them by holding rebel groups accountable and ensuring that justice is dispensed by lawmakers rather than by armed groups with scores to settle.Loubna Mrie, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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But there is little doubt about their offense, which rarely loses the ball and averages 43.3 points per game, second-best in the country.Andrew Greif, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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In fact, for the most part, there is precious little history among opponents in each of the four games.Tom Layberger, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Parochial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parochial. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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