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locality

[loh-kal-i-tee] / loʊˈkæl ɪ ti /




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“That has to be local to where the service is being provided, because people want language skills, people want locality, people want you in their office,” says Krishna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Thinking about that really, really influenced my approach to these pieces in terms of trying to collapse in each piece the timescales of historical influences and contemporary identity, but also the locality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

"This enabled us to get enough specific locality information to prepare a Fossil Record Form and to scientifically catalogue the fossil," Daphne says.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

There’s a value in locality, too; showing now, for example, not just what country the beans are from, but also what farm they’re grown on and what grade they are.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2025

That shadow would marry this shadow, and the peculiar, yellowish soil of our locality seal the wound in the whiteness, and yet another snowfall erase the traces of newness in Joan's grave.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

As another, he said the new rules could penalize immigrant families for accessing basic, preventative healthcare that actually helps control the broader public cost of illness to localities and states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

If changing climate means that certain foodstuffs can no longer be produced in their traditional localities, then the idea of terroir will be stretched to its limits.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

According to a Lebanese diplomatic source familiar with the content of the talks, "the Lebanese army is ready to gradually take control of the localities from which the Israeli army would withdraw".

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Yet voting in America is run by states and localities, and the EAC’s role is appropriately modest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

In the fall of 1958, Virginia’s governor Lindsay Almond chained the doors of the schools in localities that attempted to comply with the Supreme Court’s Brown decision.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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