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locality

[loh-kal-i-tee] / loʊˈkæl ɪ ti /




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Indeed, in our poll, it was encouraging that most respondents didn't seem to want to burn their locality down.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Thinking about that really, really influenced my approach to these pieces in terms of trying to collapse in each piece the timescales of historical influences and contemporary identity, but also the locality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

"This enabled us to get enough specific locality information to prepare a Fossil Record Form and to scientifically catalogue the fossil," Daphne says.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

No other government uses this system—no locality, no state, no country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

A second method for identifying a crop’s or animal’s site of domestication is to plot on a map the dates of the domesticated form’s first appearance at each locality.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“And again, where the rubber meets the road” for this issue is at the level of localities, states and regional transmission organizations, he added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Shanmugam characterized Boulder’s case as “unprecedented,” and argued that the Constitution does not permit individual localities to “use state law to regulate global conduct.”

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

As another, he said the new rules could penalize immigrant families for accessing basic, preventative healthcare that actually helps control the broader public cost of illness to localities and states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

At least 15 states have weighed moratoriums on data-center construction, and at least 100 localities have approved one, according to Brookings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

In the fall of 1958, Virginia’s governor Lindsay Almond chained the doors of the schools in localities that attempted to comply with the Supreme Court’s Brown decision.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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