provincial
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The province was placed under emergency rule last month in a move authorities said came in reaction to the failure by the provincial government to act against militancy.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
The party was founded by former South African President Jacob Zuma and was the biggest party across his home province of KwaZulu-Natal in the 2024 provincial election.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The company also is working in Quebec to commercialize a new carbon-free smelting process in a joint venture with Alcoa and the provincial government, with support from the Canadian government and Apple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Alberta's office responsible for overseeing provincial elections said the advance voting station in Wainwright had closed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Johannes Kepler was born in Germany in 1571 and sent as a boy to the Protestant seminary school in the provincial town of Maulbronn to be educated for the clergy.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
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
He knew how well the provincials were arming, preparing to welcome him.
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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