provincial

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These menswear staples—basics but for their deep social coding—are equally common in Tokyo’s Harajuku or Paris’s Bastille or even in the provincial towns of Italy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Despite its federal losses, the party's provincial iterations still enjoy support and are the governing parties in British Columbia and Manitoba.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

The RN also showed its strength in small provincial towns, with victories in Montargis, Carcassonne and La Seyne-sur-Mer, though it lost the mayoralty of Villers-Cotterets north of Paris.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

As the first foreign king to sit on its throne, John brought the provincial city its first taste of cosmopolitanism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

In an age of Atomic Power and a clearly coming Hyperatomic Drive, she remained quietly provincial.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov