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Some provincial leaders have pushed for firmer action on trade negotiations by Ottawa.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

In Khuzestan province, the deputy provincial governor said the US had attacked 95 locations in 12 cities over the past 10 days, according to Iran's Tasnim news agency.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

A special police team has begun investigating the killing of a provincial leader of an anti-migrant group in South Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

“Plucked from a provincial neighborhood,” John Buchanan writes, Greene “rose to high fame in his time and rests now in the pantheon of heroes of the Revolution and a Founder of the new nation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

NM: Yes, that is what I am talking about, I am talking about Parliament and other government bodies of the country, the provincial councils, the municipal councils.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Naturally, to provincials in a military zone such as the one stretching south from Hadrian’s Wall, the implications tended to be alarming.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2019

In this novel, a motley band of provincials, army deserters, and disenchanted élites descend on Nigeria’s largest city, and story lines and twists abound.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

During his 1917 second inaugural speech, for instance, Woodrow Wilson memorably declared "we are provincials no longer."

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017

But in fact it’s heartbreak among the principals more than the provincials that Mr. Hatcher provides, along with generous doses of arch quipping in the Coward mold.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012

Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes