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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

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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 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

In Western music, the grouping of notes into families began with the Ancient Greeks, who gave each of the note-families, which they called tonoi or harmoniai, the name of a certain tribe or locality.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

“And again, where the rubber meets the road” for this issue is at the level of localities, states and regional transmission organizations, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Shanmugam characterized Boulder’s case as “unprecedented,” and argued that the Constitution does not permit individual localities to “use state law to regulate global conduct.”

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

The county hosting the event recently passed a one-year moratorium on new data centers, one of dozens of localities to do so in recent months due to fears about excessive power and water usage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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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