provincial
Example Sentences
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As the first foreign king to sit on its throne, John brought the provincial city its first taste of cosmopolitanism.
But a provincial official appeared to scotch such suggestions, telling AFP: "There are no security alerts of any kind".
From Barron's
Earlier this week, a group of First Nations leaders gathered at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton to call on the provincial premier, Danielle Smith, to quash any possible succession referendum.
From BBC
Strikes damaged Tehran’s provincial emergency-services headquarters and hit medical facilities overnight, Iranian state media reported.
The California types risk being overly provincial here, as if movie and TV production aren’t already being dispersed to global production centers and, indeed, into cyberspace with AI.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
