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as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
it took a while for some of the more narrow-minded members of management to be persuaded to modernize the dress code
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as in parochial
not broad or open in views or opinions
narrow-minded people who instinctively feared and shunned those from different cultures
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Recent Examples of narrow-minded
That’s the rigorous—or narrow-minded—judgment that . . .
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Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
But the pacing is zippy; the animation is lush and textured, especially when the series, unexpectedly and wonderfully, veers into the supernatural; and the characterization tweaks are inspired, especially those that will make the most narrow-minded people mad.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
Reducing African artists to only Afrobeats because of their ethnicity is narrow-minded and completely disregards the diversity of the various African musical styles that these musicians represent and explore through their artistry.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2024
And this kind of thinking is just so narrow-minded and patronizing.
—Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
As such, strong rulers keep narrow-minded bureaucrats from leading their country into costly miscalculations.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
Despite the ill-conceived and narrow-minded arguments made by those who believe that atonement and rehabilitation are inconsequential, my colleagues and I in the criminal justice system have seen firsthand how that thinking is irrefutably false.
—Aisha Braveboy, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012’s worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
Critics have blamed it for upholding a narrow-minded model of relationships as heterosexual and monogamous.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
But the pacing is zippy; the animation is lush and textured, especially when the series, unexpectedly and wonderfully, veers into the supernatural; and the characterization tweaks are inspired, especially those that will make the most narrow-minded people mad.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2024
Reducing African artists to only Afrobeats because of their ethnicity is narrow-minded and completely disregards the diversity of the various African musical styles that these musicians represent and explore through their artistry.
—Giana Levy, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2024
And this kind of thinking is just so narrow-minded and patronizing.
—Shadi Hamid, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
As such, strong rulers keep narrow-minded bureaucrats from leading their country into costly miscalculations.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 Apr. 2023
Despite the ill-conceived and narrow-minded arguments made by those who believe that atonement and rehabilitation are inconsequential, my colleagues and I in the criminal justice system have seen firsthand how that thinking is irrefutably false.
—Aisha Braveboy, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2024
Sweepingly ridiculed as one of 2012’s worst albums, that judgment, five years later, feels wildly narrow-minded.
—Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 29 Feb. 2024
Critics have blamed it for upholding a narrow-minded model of relationships as heterosexual and monogamous.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for narrow-minded
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In that race, the popular vote split between Bush and Gore by a very small margin — much narrower than in 2016.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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True lilies produce one stem and have narrow, strappy leaves.Lauren David, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Nov. 2024
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There are literally thousands of other Americans worldwide who have dedicated their lives in similar ways to causes that are more consequential than parochial nationalism.Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Slipknot have since gone multi-platinum, founded their own music festival, and stretched far beyond their parochial metal scene into persistent cultural relevance.Emma Madden, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Vance has pushed the baseless, racist claim that Haitian immigrants are eating American pets, as well as bigoted, undemocratic ideas about people without children.Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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But as civility gets ground down to a nub by increasingly racist and bigoted behavior, from Trump down, there have to be consequences for actions.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Researchers trained rats to jog on a treadmill To scientifically measure that observation, researchers captured two dozen vampire bats from Belize and trained them to use a small treadmill typically used to measure the metabolic rates of rats.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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His priorities include veterans’ rights, advocating for small businesses, protecting the border and education, according to his campaign website. AD-64 includes a portion of Los Angeles County and La Habra in Orange County.Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 7 Nov. 2024
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The city held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the Pakistan-India border on Saturday, based on data released by the provincial government and Swiss group IQAir.Reuters, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Among others, on July 27, 2018, the DRC High Military Court upheld the conviction of 11 men, including a provincial deputy, found guilty in December 2017 of crimes against humanity for the rape of dozens of young children and girls and for murders in the village of Kavumu, 25 km from Bukavu.Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Despite the emotional celebration, the Raptors’ Global Ambassador still had some petty energy to put into the air.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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There is a long tradition of petty smuggling in the region.Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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But the Soviet system was simply too intolerant of disagreements to leave their loyalties to chance.Jeremy Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2024
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Her experiences in a notoriously intolerant industry have led her to transform her own kitchen into a place of vulnerability and growth.J. Kenji López-Alt, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
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Cassuto critiques the insular nature of most academic writing, which can be inaccessible to outsiders and, thus, not read.Marybeth Gasman, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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Today, Said’s views have achieved a kind of Pyrrhic victory within the academic humanities, where politically engaged criticism is both the norm and, not coincidentally, more insular and detached from public life than ever.Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Narrow-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narrow-minded. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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