grassroots
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The golf industry is beginning to adapt to these pressures, but local golf courses must lead at the grassroots level.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
It started out as a small grassroots event held at the Legacy Centre in Newtown, Birmingham.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Comedian Tom Walker, who portrays the fictional journalist Jonathan Pie, said the government needs to recognise comedy "as an important cultural thing from grassroots to sitcoms on the BBC".
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Mazariegos is head of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Los Angeles, a grassroots advocacy organization.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Shin did not yet know this, but grassroots capitalism, vagabond trading, and rampant corruption were creating cracks in the police state that surrounded Camp 14.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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