provincial
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The trial was set to begin in provincial court in Dartmouth on Thursday, but after the Crown provided no evidence against Smith, the actor's attorneys requested the case be dismissed.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The provincial government urged communities to help police with the investigation, saying tackling crime remained a priority.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
In 2019, he assisted the campaigns of several leftist Peronist candidates in provincial races in Argentina, and later founded his own consultancy, Numen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Only with the greatest reluctance is he drawn away from building sites to quell yet another provincial rebellion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
It did not raise the specter of intimidation as Manhattan did; it was intimate but not provincial, a city that might yet be kind to you.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He taxed provincials on the amount of olive oil they exported.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
Young German provincials such as the philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Johann Gottfried von Herder—the fathers, respectively, of economic and cultural nationalism—simmered with resentment toward cosmopolitan universalists.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2016
In our bodies, in our communities, in our social classes, we are all provincials, all in need of correction and amplification by the encounter with other views and practices of life.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2016
He knew how well the provincials were arming, preparing to welcome him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing provincial
The Great Gatsby
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Grade 11, List 5
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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
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