provincial

Roughly 43% of eligible voters cast ballots in advance polls, election officials said Sunday, well above the nearly 28% that voted that way ahead of the 2023 provincial election.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Addressing elated supporters in Edmonton, the provincial capital, as the "yes" count for Canada kept tumbling in, Lukaszuk underlined that this vote "will send a very strong message to the rest of the world".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Alberta's office responsible for overseeing provincial elections said the advance voting station in Wainwright had closed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

This year, a feud erupted over a proposed parade float festooned with Alberta provincial flags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Here, her father would seem crass, with his unnecessary big words, and her mother provincial and small.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In the revised system, provincials had to pay roughly 1 percent tax on their wealth, which included their assets in the form of land, as well as a flat poll tax.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Living in isolated colonies far removed from the received political wisdom of Europe, these provincials were free to experiment with fresh ideas, such as the then-radical notion of sovereignty divided between national and state governments.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020

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

In this novel, a motley band of provincials, army deserters, and disenchanted élites descend on Nigeria’s largest city, and story lines and twists abound.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes