as in small
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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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Billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos created Blue Origin back in 2000, but has to date only launched the smaller suborbital New Shepard rockets from its facilities in West Texas.RICHARD TRIBOU ORLANDO SENTINEL (TNS), arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Reata at the Rodeo, a smaller but no less impressive version of the Southwestern steakhouse in downtown Fort Worth, will open at 11 a.m. Jan. 17 and will serve all day most days.Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
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But the smoke is still rising, and petty partisanship is a distraction and disservice at the moment, given all that’s been lost, and all the hard work of moving forward.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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In an era of steadily declining trust in media, the dry formalities of a legal template provide not only an imprimatur of institutional credibility, but also the freedom to go into extreme amounts of detail without seeming petty, tedious or self-indulgent.Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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But there are big stumbling blocks, including the narrow window to reach a deal and the widely varied value of the app.Auzinea Bacon, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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The narrow edge is expected to get even slimmer when two Republican members of congress join Trump’s cabinet.Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Belichick, always an insular coach, further withdrew during that season amid his team’s struggles, according to team sources with knowledge of the situation.Chad Graff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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An even more explicit example of Marin County’s stubborn resistance is occurring in Fairfax, another insular community a few miles from Newsom’s new home.Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2024
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In Canada, this is largely a provincial responsibility, but the national government shouldered a lot of the blame.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Canadian provincial driver's license or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card.Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
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The military also feared the consequences of disintegration, as Assad portrayed himself as a bulwark against chaos and sectarian violence.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Under Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing agreement, the president must be a Maronite Christian.Dayana Iwaza, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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The grand tourer had a lot to live up to but had little trouble doing so thanks to its sleek exterior and potent Colombo V-12.Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
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My little study of condo prices demonstrates that every single mortgage loan in this country is like walking into a casino and betting one’s future on red or black on the roulette wheel.Roger Valdez, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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