regional

adjective

Definition of regionalnext
1
as in local

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2
as in dialectal

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Recent Examples of regional The Israeli military launched large-scale domestic military exercises on Sunday to counter surprise border infiltrations and ground raids across northern and central Israel, mobilizing multiple divisions and air assets amid rising regional tensions. — Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Throughout that year, as Israelis poured into the streets to protest Netanyahu's far-right government and its plan to weaken the judiciary, Netanyahu's security chiefs warned that regional enemies could take advantage of the turmoil to attack. — Daniel Estrin, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026 What these lessons mean for Taiwan The regional relevance is clear. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026 At the same time, as part of China’s World AI Cooperation Organization alongside 28 other initial founding countries including Pakistan and Russia, Kazakhstan hopes to also have a voice in setting regional and global AI standards. — ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for regional
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regional
  1. local
  2. dialectal
  3. dialectical
  4. nonstandard
  5. vernacular
  6. colloquial
  7. nonliterary
  8. informal
Adjective
  • Public trust creates a separate pressure towards meaningful local commitment.
    — Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Sun enters your 3rd House, beginning a month that favors learning, writing, conversations, local activity, and following questions farther than usual.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of local
Adjective
  • In Salento, each town nestled into a shallow valley or slim rise has its own dialectal name for the almond in its varied manifestations—as tree, as fruit, as orchard.
    — Angelica Calabrese, Longreads, 7 July 2026
Definition of dialectal
Adjective
  • Instead modes of therapy that help people reduce black-and-white thinking, such as dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), are beginning to show promise in treating addictions.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of dialectical
Adjective
  • This can even affect nonstandard English speakers or people who speak a variety of English that differs from the mainstream varieties privileged in courts and schools.
    — Carol Rose Little, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
  • Diamonds with nonstandard colors are more difficult to value, as the principle of supply and demand applies here.
    — Rodion Ksonzenko, Forbes.com, 4 May 2026
Definition of nonstandard
Adjective
  • For me, a poster, in a Native context, is something that communicates a message through typography, visual language or vernacular language, and is intended to be publicly shown or expressed.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • On the one hand, there’s a fascination with collective joy and the forms of vernacular invention that aspire to it; on the other, there’s an underlying melancholy that points to the inevitability of isolation, an epistemology of loneliness.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of vernacular
Adjective
  • That’s the colloquial name for the Salkin House, an 1,100-square-foot dwelling perched on a hillside lot, built for violist Jules Salkin in 1948 by John Lautner, the famed midcentury modern architect.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The theme uses a colloquial phrase almost like a mathematical function.
    — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of colloquial
Adjective
  • Most of the people on this list worked nonliterary jobs before becoming a successful writer.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026
Definition of nonliterary
Adjective
  • In an office, the two of them would likely have crossed paths, enabling an informal mentoring relationship.
    — Lynn Godfrey, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Around a third of young Africans are employed in informal roles in the agricultural sector.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of informal

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“Regional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regional. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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