How to Use regionalism in a Sentence

regionalism

noun
  • The residents have a strong sense of regionalism.
  • The word “pop” for “soda” is a Midwest regionalism.
  • But at many such restaurants today, a true sense of regionalism is lost.
    — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Why hasn’t regionalism caught on more strongly with Bay Area bars?
    — Lou Bustamante, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • To be clear, hip-hop in general doesn’t have a regionalism problem.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There are two ways in which regionalism was often transcended.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013
  • Some tweaking on the margin is not very surprising, at least in hindsight, but more baroque forms of multi-regionalism have far too many moving parts.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
  • The dictionary also includes regionalisms from around the country.
    — Jesse Sheidlower, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • But regionalism in Connecticut, Yankees don’t want to hear that.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
  • Although his sharp eye and accurate ear capture a place, its people and a time in a masterly way, his work goes far beyond regionalism.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Like much of American identity, the answer is a stew of regionalism, race and faith, among other things.
    — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2017
  • TouchTunes erodes the premise of quaint regionalism as bars of all kinds transform into Top 40 danceries.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The Atlantic, 8 May 2018
  • The idea - only possible in a charter county - could crack the door for more regionalism, even though that’s not part of Weingart’s plan.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Neither will false claims about the efficacy of regionalism or other progressive pipe dreams.
    — Bob Stefanowski, WSJ, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Just don’t let the deniers know that regionalism and sustainability are essentially one and the same.
    — Richard Olsen, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • But what was important to me was not their exact accents, but the regionalism and their bickering and bantering with one another.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
  • His bar’s names refer spirits that Vogler believes are capable of expressing regionalism.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Such failures include Minneapolis, vaunted until now as a paragon of regionalism and good city planning.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 4 June 2020
  • This national narrative sat in tension with a growing regionalism, seen in the rise of local historians and small museums.
    — JSTOR Daily, 26 Oct. 2025
  • In a country where officials are often suspicious of regionalism, club bosses are trying to appeal to the pride of Cantonese speakers.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • Wray talked regionalism with Tom Condon, the Mirror’s urban and regional affairs reporter.
    — Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The cover features a photo of a white couple, evoking American Gothic in its artistic regionalism.
    — Marlo Safi, National Review, 29 June 2019
  • And one of the best things about American independent movies, especially in the modern age of first-person filmmaking, is their regionalism.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Kevin Kamenetz’s death leaves a large void in the cause of city-county relations, the promise in regionalism, progressive government and honorable service to the common good.
    — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2018
  • Football, for all its unabashed ties to virulent tribalism or staunch regionalism, makes those inherent differences fairly difficult to mend.
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Mass media and corporate marketing spelled an end to regionalism, creating an artificial culture that can be mass-produced and mass-marketed.
    — Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Their approach is marked by more creative side dishes, a return to all-wood smoking, ethnic influences, local sourcing, cheffy experimentation and pan-regionalism.
    — Jim Shahin, sacbee.com, 23 May 2017
  • The concept is not unlike the literary trope of regionalism or local color genre—telling the same core story, just tailoring the language and presentation for new audiences and global regions.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 25 Nov. 2025
  • As lococentric novels like Sheep Rock make apparent, Stewart knew his country almost to a fault—his work has sometimes been dismissed as mere regionalism.
    — Matthew Sherrill, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • In the thirties and forties, in ways that became art-world conventional wisdom, some critics equated regionalism with the blood-and-soil mystique of Nazism and/or socialist realism.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018

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