provincial
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Some provincial leaders have pushed for firmer action on trade negotiations by Ottawa.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, circulated daily between the imperial and provincial courts, helping knit together an empire that, at its peak, ruled much of the Indian subcontinent and nearly a quarter of the world's population.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
But the current wave of repression has caught up Iranians from all ethnic and social backgrounds, from Tehran to small provincial towns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Bertie Wooster’s shy friend Gussie Fink-Nottle has been invited to give the prizes at a school speech day in the provincial town of Market Snodsbury.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
He taxed provincials on the amount of olive oil they exported.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Young German provincials such as the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried von Herder—the fathers, respectively, of economic and cultural nationalism—simmered with resentment toward cosmopolitan universalists.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2016
In our bodies, in our communities, in our social classes, we are all provincials, all in need of correction and amplification by the encounter with other views and practices of life.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
When it comes to literature, Americans really are provincials.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012
He knew how well the provincials were arming, preparing to welcome him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing provincial
The Great Gatsby
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Grade 11, List 5
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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
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