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localism

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Recent Examples of localism Some in congressional leadership feared that the growth of radio networks would create a monopoly by dominating the industry, stifle radio localism, and influence legislation—thereby limiting the public interest provision. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026 Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are. — Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026 Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions. — JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025 Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for localism

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At the very least, regionalism marked a spatial recalibration in the literary imaginary, away from European metropoles and national capitals and toward rural hinterlands.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
The sport is defined by regionalism and spectacle, contradiction and chaos.

— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

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The condescension was of its time, a provincialism of the art world, ironically.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are.

— Manuela Moscoso, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026

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The first Velvet Underground album, the mid-period Beatles, Kinks, and Creedence Clearwater Revival records, with enough time, seem almost like different components to the same idiom.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Cinema is, after all, a language, and Belgian filmmakers come from a country built on the need to understand language as a bridge—between its regions, its people, and its idioms.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026

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