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Orange County’s new sophistication ought to be above rivalry, but a touch of parochial defensiveness remains.

Instead it said "most gangs in the Caribbean" were "typically parochial, and focused instead on protecting their territory".

From BBC

“Demascus” isn’t parochial or polemical; the emotional beats are accessible to any moderately sensitive human.

The result of this policy won’t be a thriving domestic market — but a quieter, flatter, more parochial one.

He has, in fact, committed himself to an approach that’s incompatible with the current, parochial process of putting together the Pentagon budget.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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