How to Use localism in a Sentence

localism

noun
  • In the report, it had been made to sound like a paean to localism.
    — Molly Ball, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Thinking about firearms localism requires a shift in mindset.
    — Joseph Blocher, Vox, 24 Mar. 2018
  • As for the protests themselves, Bassingthwaighte makes their localism clear.
    — Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times, 14 July 2017
  • But the localism of France at the time should not be underestimated.
    — Arjun Chowdhury, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2010
  • But localism alone might not compensate for the loss of national integrity.
    — Fred Bauer, National Review, 10 Oct. 2019
  • For starters, a consistent localism is the best hope for conservatives on the national scale.
    — Max Bloom, National Review, 13 July 2017
  • Arguments about localism and sustainability may seem trite when most of the customers travel thousands of miles to eat a meal.
    — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • Carr has mode localism a priority, and has pushed back on moves by network owners to continue raising onerous fees.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Thus, current fears reinforce a pre-existing localism, and infuse it with new and intense emotions.
    — JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But while these national-scale projects differ in size from the architect's schools and health centers, his approach remains rooted in localism.
    — CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • That attitude is slowly changing, although in the rest of the world, those who preach seasonality and localism are most often those who can pay to do so.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Is that really what the localism movement advocates, swearing off all global means of production?
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2011
  • Is the localism of the food essentially nullified by the fact that a majority of the diners are traveling thousands of miles to eat here?
    — Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire, 19 May 2017
  • Both the ceramic and the chamoy traditions symbolize layers of culture as shaped by globalism and localism.
    — Stephanie Shih june 17, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
  • But concomitant with this were tensions around the concept of localism, an ethos with its roots in the conditions and convictions of the earliest settlers.
    — JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • As once-fringe views like localism moved into the mainstream, Lee remained committed to a form of optimistic pragmatism.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, Wired, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Get our daily newsletter These legal travails could bring to an end an odd exception to India’s localism.
    — The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • Environmentalism and localism are the twin pillars of the resort.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 June 2022
  • The town, said Mandy Nolan, a local writer, has become a case study in what happens when a culture of localism is marketed on a global scale.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • Childhood memories, marketing and a fashion for localism came together to make milk tea a totem of Hong Kong culture.
    — Kanis Leung, ajc, 25 Nov. 2022
  • An earlier post of his functioned as a rallying cry and drew hundreds of comments expressing similar sentiments of localism.
    — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • This no doubt rankles those who prefer maximum localism and diversity within Congress.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 17 June 2019
  • This situation speaks to the localism of the Roman West beneath its imperial carapace.
    — Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
  • On the extreme end of the localism spectrum are those who openly advocate Hong Kong’s independence from China.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • This dual nature, which invites a mix of localism and worldliness, has long been one of our particular strengths, and continues to attract artists and new residents from around the nation and the world.
    — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Transnational localism is Zoho's secret sauce for building software that meets the needs of individual markets.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Unfortunately, there appears to be a concerted effort to move the United States rapidly away from localism toward statism.
    — Robert Brooks, National Review, 28 July 2021
  • This is an economic parlance that speaks of entrepreneurship and localism as the twin-propellers of human, as well as economic, capital in America.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
  • Nor is this solely a matter for humanities and law faculties, looking into irksome questions of democracy, history or localism.
    — The Economist, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The summer light of the Tetons is a character all its own, and the film nails the details of skid life (multiple jobs, insecure housing, the performative localism of second home owners).
    — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 10 Aug. 2024

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