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Recent Examples of parochialism
Within a few years of leaving Texas, Rauschenberg had upended everything the place had meant to him, smashing through the parochialism of small-town Southern life, where necks were broken in Jesus’ name, and families indentured or murdered.
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Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Today, in popular narratives of the civil rights movement, journalists are remembered as heroes who braved the South’s violent parochialism to shine a light on those confronting Jim Crow segregation.
— Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
—Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2025
But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Hilton Als, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Today, in popular narratives of the civil rights movement, journalists are remembered as heroes who braved the South’s violent parochialism to shine a light on those confronting Jim Crow segregation.
— Made By History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
Central government has done nothing to pressure the council to abandon its parochialism.
—Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 24 Mar. 2025
But his critics on the left, many of them of color, have long pointed out these very blind spots in his work—the parochialism of his politics and his reticence where Muslim, and particularly Palestinian, death and suffering were concerned.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parochialism
Noun
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Adieu Euro-American insularity, hello world beat.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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To do so, the party will have to find an antidote for party insularity syndrome.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Attempts to resolve ecological responsibility through strict localism often risk sliding into cultural provincialism or nationalist enclosure—fantasies of purity that ignore how deeply entangled our lives already are.—
Manuela Moscoso,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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This provincialism was identified as such and condemned by Merlin Klee, who had been a Freedom Rider as well as a Catholic before joining the community.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The fact is that Islamophobia is the last form of acceptable bigotry in America.—
Zainab Chaudry,
Baltimore Sun,
22 May 2026
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But there was a very bad deal going on in Detroit in the summer of 1943, systemic bigotry at its worst, and the CP flooded the place with bad dope and real bad cheap rot-gut booze.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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By staying so close to black metal’s core sound, Marchenko does more to undermine the dogmatism—both racial and aesthetic—of Vikernes and his ilk than a more obviously experimental project might.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
31 Mar. 2026
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But for the audience the scariest revelation in the conversation isn’t his dogmatism.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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“Parochialism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parochialism. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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