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"word": "მრევლის"
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"sense": "pertaining to a parish",
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"word": "församlings-"
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"word": "socken-"
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"text": "The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.",
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"text": "Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.",
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"ref": "1918 1st of February, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, “Why I Joined The Army”, in Daily Express, London",
"text": "But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.",
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"ref": "1969, T.C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, page 341",
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"ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60",
"text": "The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.",
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"Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook."
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"word": "狹隘"
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"word": "lokální"
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"word": "provinsiel"
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"word": "bekrompen"
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"word": "nurkkakuntainen"
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"word": "étriqué"
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"ref": "2006, Ian Marsh, Democratisation, Governance and Regionalism in East and Southeast Asia",
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"ref": "2022, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Daniel Andrews",
"text": "Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.",
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"word": "campanilistico"
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"word": "偏狭な"
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