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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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

The UN experts said former Agemira personnel were redeployed to Kisangani, an eastern provincial capital a few hundred miles from the front line.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Tuesday dozens of PTI supporters took to the streets in Bara, Khyber district, hometown of provincial Chief Minister Sohail Afridi.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

While perhaps a more provincial cause, it had all the advantages of a more concerted and tightly focused political agenda in which each man played a clearly defined role.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Foreigners themselves were categorized into different groups, including free provincials, or peregrini, who were not Roman citizens; army recruits; and those living beyond the Roman border.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

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

When it comes to literature, Americans really are provincials.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2012

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes