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Recent Examples of regional
This adidas competitive circuit, which draws teams from all over the country, includes three regional tournaments where teams must collect points to qualify for the culminating championship.
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Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
This comes as the park’s parent company, North America’s largest regional amusement operator, attempts to chart a new track for a financial turnaround.
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
In Dnipro, a drone attack killed one person and injured five, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in a post on Telegram.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
The park is a collaboration of many regional partners.
—Olivia Young, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Amy Stark Shireman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026
This comes as the park’s parent company, North America’s largest regional amusement operator, attempts to chart a new track for a financial turnaround.
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
In Dnipro, a drone attack killed one person and injured five, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said in a post on Telegram.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
The park is a collaboration of many regional partners.
—Olivia Young, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
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Working with local police, the Secret Service conducted site reviews of the sprawling complex and established a security perimeter to prevent suspicious individuals from approaching the president and other VIP attendees.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Most evenings, Mohamed Ismail would sit at his local ‘ahwa, one of the small, no-frills coffee shops that are the cornerstone of social life in Cairo.—
Mirette Magdy,
Bloomberg,
27 Apr. 2026
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In Fiduccia’s perceptive reading, binaries such as abstraction and likeness, form and formlessness, seriality and singularity, take on dialectical tension and interrelation.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy have been found to be significantly helpful for building self-esteem and coping with difficult emotions.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2026
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Narrow bathrooms, round or unusual plumbing configurations may require nonstandard shower and tub configurations.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Mar. 2026
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State and federal officials have cited driver and pedestrian safety as the chief reason for removing nonstandard crosswalks.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
25 Feb. 2026
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The sound of motorbikes and cars fade as birds take over with their harmonies all around Nai Lert’s Thai vernacular style all-teak vacation home, built in 1915.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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This pattern blends the storytelling rhythm of the Persian mas̄navī (narrative poem written in rhyming couplets) with vernacular Hindi verse forms.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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Their language — marked by rich, tactile detail and a colloquial urgency — has quietly shaped how generations of songwriters articulate devotion.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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Although tabloid journalism tends not to focus on issues with broad socioeconomic impact, when these issues are covered audiences may relate to them more easily because they are discussed in colloquial, accessible language.—
Shepherd Mpofu,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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In the early 1980s, Murphy and a few associates ran an informal back channel between the United States and the Soviet Union.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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For households where one member frequently travels or serves in demanding roles, the app offers a way to pass along knowledge that might otherwise remain informal.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, more than 272,000 children in Ukraine have benefitted from learning interventions with supplies provided by UNICEF, and over 400,000 children have engaged in formal or nonformal education.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes,
18 Aug. 2022
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But even Cunard has nonformal settings where dressed-down can go, including the buffet, casino and pub.—
Hannah Sampson,
Houston Chronicle,
20 Dec. 2019
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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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