provincial
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They’ve proposed making concessions, including pushing the provincial premiers to return U.S. booze to shelves, if the new levies are dropped and existing levies on goods such as steel and autos are eased.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
At least five people have died after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia early on Saturday morning, according to the provincial governor.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In dusty provincial capitals and farmers' fields, where international and Afghan aid agencies wrestle with ways to work on the ground, the conversations continue day in day out.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The provincial mining chief also pledged to tackle any corruption, and ensure the "mineral resources of Badakhshan will be utilised properly and for the benefit of the people".
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The secretariat was a subcommittee of the branch executive, which reported to the provincial secretary.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
He taxed provincials on the amount of olive oil they exported.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Living in isolated colonies far removed from the received political wisdom of Europe, these provincials were free to experiment with fresh ideas, such as the then-radical notion of sovereignty divided between national and state governments.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2020
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
The characters’ hard-won wisdom, a theme throughout Rousseau’s novels and other works, made them as popular with Kant, in Königsberg, as with quietly desperate provincials throughout Europe.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 25, 2016
Sometime they’d strike out and seize the military supplies they knew the provincials were collecting.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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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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