How to Use regionalism in a Sentence

regionalism

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  • This regionalism has been staring us in the face all along.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 9 May 2019
  • The result does not bode well for regionalism, Gerth said.
    — Carrie Blackmore Smith, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • TouchTunes erodes the premise of quaint regionalism as bars of all kinds transform into Top 40 danceries.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 May 2018
  • But at many such restaurants today, a true sense of regionalism is lost.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Why hasn’t regionalism caught on more strongly with Bay Area bars?
    — Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The idea - only possible in a charter county - could crack the door for more regionalism, even though that’s not part of Weingart’s plan.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Like much of American identity, the answer is a stew of regionalism, race and faith, among other things.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Some tweaking on the margin is not very surprising, at least in hindsight, but more baroque forms of multi-regionalism have far too many moving parts.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
  • A good example of how regionalism can drive a popular-electoral vote split is the 1888 election.
    — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2016
  • Although his sharp eye and accurate ear capture a place, its people and a time in a masterly way, his work goes far beyond regionalism.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Paulding officials deny that and say Atlanta's opposition flies in the face of the regionalism that Mayor Kasim Reed spoke about to leaders there a few years ago.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 12 Mar. 2018
  • There are two ways in which regionalism was often transcended.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013
  • The dictionary also includes regionalisms from around the country.
    — Jesse Sheidlower, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Kevin Kamenetz’s death leaves a large void in the cause of city-county relations, the promise in regionalism, progressive government and honorable service to the common good.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2018
  • In a country where officials are often suspicious of regionalism, club bosses are trying to appeal to the pride of Cantonese speakers.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Wray talked regionalism with Tom Condon, the Mirror’s urban and regional affairs reporter.
    — Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Neither will false claims about the efficacy of regionalism or other progressive pipe dreams.
    — Bob Stefanowski, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The cover features a photo of a white couple, evoking American Gothic in its artistic regionalism.
    — Marlo Safi, National Review, 29 June 2019
  • In the thirties and forties, in ways that became art-world conventional wisdom, some critics equated regionalism with the blood-and-soil mystique of Nazism and/or socialist realism.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
  • As lococentric novels like Sheep Rock make apparent, Stewart knew his country almost to a fault—his work has sometimes been dismissed as mere regionalism.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The brownstones, the jazz clubs, the upscale apartments, the murderous basements are all brought to life with an authenticity and deep regard for a bygone regionalism that’s now buried under several layers of property booms and busts.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Such failures include Minneapolis, vaunted until now as a paragon of regionalism and good city planning.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 June 2020
  • In these two democracies of many similarities—of big cities and vast landscapes, wheat fields and oil fields, multiethnic populations and intense regionalism—the contrast in the response to the global pandemic could not have been more stark.
    — Elisabeth Eaves, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
  • His bar’s names refer spirits that Vogler believes are capable of expressing regionalism.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • More regionalism of Mexican and Chinese and Japanese and Indian cuisines?
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The results of Canada’s national election on Monday have echoes of divisions in other countries across the world where regionalism is intensifying and the urban-rural divide is growing.
    — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This general lawlessness gives the sport an idiosyncratic regionalism: College football is barely noticed in some states, and inspires a near-pentecostal fervor in others.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Any interstate rivalries and regionalism aside, California and Oregon are in the same straits: suffering the same smoky air, ecological destruction and foreboding skies.
    — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Their approach is marked by more creative side dishes, a return to all-wood smoking, ethnic influences, local sourcing, cheffy experimentation and pan-regionalism.
    — Jim Shahin, sacbee.com, 23 May 2017
  • But regionalism, which has both a physical and temporal aspect, is neglected at one's peril in terms of understanding the political and social patterns of the American republic.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013

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