provincial
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In 2019, he assisted the campaigns of several leftist Peronist candidates in provincial races in Argentina, and later founded his own consultancy, Numen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Iwansyah said the agency had requested additional masks from the provincial government, and was encouraging people to buy their own.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mr. Rogers knows full well that the Senate race isn’t of only provincial concern.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kusama was born in 1929 in the rural provincial town of Matsumoto, based in the central Nagano region of Japan.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Some provincial leaders resisted it because they believed it undermined their power.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He taxed provincials on the amount of olive oil they exported.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Naturally, to provincials in a military zone such as the one stretching south from Hadrian’s Wall, the implications tended to be alarming.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2019
During his 1917 second inaugural speech, for instance, Woodrow Wilson memorably declared "we are provincials no longer."
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017
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
Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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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