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locality

[loh-kal-i-tee] / loʊˈkæl ɪ ti /




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There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 26, 2026

Nagi says that the conversation motivated her to visit the boy's slum community and she offered to spruce up the locality by decorating the walls with murals.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2026

The site is also close to Sidi Abderrahmane, a landmark locality for Middle Pleistocene archaeology in Northwest Africa.

From Science Daily Feb. 7, 2026

No other government uses this system—no locality, no state, no country.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The overall thrust of the package, the Evercore analysts said, is to reduce regulatory barriers that constrain housing construction by streamlining environmental reviews and encouraging localities to adopt zoning and building-code best practices.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Across France and Germany, with temperatures climbing into the mid-30s, hundreds of localities saw records for May being broken.

From BBC May 25, 2026

Other localities have decided that the costs of the drugs are worth their potential health benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

To make the system less dysfunctional, California could restrict localities from blocking transit, just like it did with housing, Schank said, on the basis it is a critical need.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

The trouble is that most of these remains are not from wet, coastal Alexandria or even the southern capital of Ptolemais, but instead from minor localities like Tebtunis, El-Hiba, and Oxyrhynchus.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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