as in insularity
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But pioneering Zionist settlement in Palestine began as a secularist revolution against religious Diaspora parochialism as much as against pogroms.
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Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Different nominee, different holdouts—same grandstanding, same parochialism.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
Mostly the appeal is a bit of New York island parochialism, endearing and annoying at once.
—Curbed, 1 Mar. 2023
In the mid-20th century, at the behest of Ascanio, Spanish magicians like Tamariz learned English in order to study the canonical literature of the craft then emerging from North America and the United Kingdom — in its way, a small act of rebellion against the parochialism of the Franco regime.
—Shuja Haider, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
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Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Different nominee, different holdouts—same grandstanding, same parochialism.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
Mostly the appeal is a bit of New York island parochialism, endearing and annoying at once.
—Curbed, 1 Mar. 2023
In the mid-20th century, at the behest of Ascanio, Spanish magicians like Tamariz learned English in order to study the canonical literature of the craft then emerging from North America and the United Kingdom — in its way, a small act of rebellion against the parochialism of the Franco regime.
—Shuja Haider, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
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“Parochialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parochialism. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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