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noun

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Recent Examples of provincial
Adjective
Bats pose a unique risk because their scratches can be hard to notice due to their small teeth, and bats cannot be vaccinated through provincial programs, health officials said. CBS News, 4 Dec. 2024 One of the ladies was a singer with a provincial opera; Chekhov hadn’t heard of her. Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
It’s shaped like a classic coming-of-age tale: a young provincial, Eloise Turner (Thomasin McKenzie), goes to the metropolis to realize her dreams and, in the process, has her illusions dispelled. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021 Canada’s capital is under two states of emergency, one local and another provincial. Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022 See all Example Sentences for provincial 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provincial
Adjective
  • Columbus Today Columbus is no longer the parochial, third-tier Midwestern city big dreamers must leave in order to fulfil their potential.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But parochial political feuds and byzantine zoning codes have hampered LA’s efforts to get more new housing off the ground.
    Carly Stern, Vox, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The musical genre, originating from the Andean region of Colombia, specifically from the departments of Santander and Boyacá, is, in essence, Colombian peasant music.
    Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2025
  • He was born in 1915 into a poor but educated peasant family in Hunan Province.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Sitting in front of local leaders, Trump again wrongly blamed elements of the fire disaster on a lack of water resources coming from the Delta and environmental protections for the delta smelt, a small fish near extinction that has become a symbol of GOP frustration.
    Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In first grade, when a teacher called him a hick, Ciotti threw an inkwell at her.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • In the special, taped at Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV, Kober brings audiences together with stories about dealing with hometown hicks, unforgiving fruit flies and California candy cartels.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 25 June 2024
Adjective
  • Organized theft is no petty crime; these are not one-off crimes of desperation or a mom lifting a can of formula to feed her baby.
    Cailey Locklair, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In November 2023, Pryer filed a motion to terminate her remaining two years of probation based on a recent court ruling which held that a defendant convicted of a single petty offense may not be sentenced to both imprisonment and probation.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Off-mountain: Skiers who prefer to stay overnight in nearby Driggs, Idaho (a 20-minute drive from Grand Targhee) have a few rustic, albeit comfortable, possibilities.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Venues tend to lean rustic in much of Hillsborough County.
    Yacob Reyes, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Think narrow sections with extra weight in the middle to give you more control for day-to-day styling at home.
    Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The large table serves as the primary crafting area; the narrow wood desk is her workstation.
    Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 July 2024
  • Ben’s refusal to stand down for a middle-aged white man seeking to wrest power from him was radical, as was the film’s ending, in which the hero was shot by yokels failing to distinguish him from the zombies previously described as animals.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024

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“Provincial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provincial. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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