parochialin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
parochial as in: limited by a parochial view
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She found the town’s parochial attitudes frustrating after moving from a big city.parochial = narrow in outlook
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The debate focused too much on parochial concerns rather than the larger national interest.parochial = local (narrow)
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Her views on immigration were criticized as parochial and out of touch with global realities.parochial = narrow in outlook
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She is very practical, but I'm bored by her parochial outlook.parochial = narrowly restricted
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She told Katherine Keeling that our English reading lists were "even more parochial" than she had feared. (source)parochial = narrow in view
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Sol realized what he had known and forgotten about very small communities: they were frequently annoying, always parochial, sometimes prying on a one-to-one level, but never had they subscribed to the vicious legacy of the so-called "public's right to know." (source)parochial = narrow in outlook
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Calling on his women friends at their hospitable apartments in quiet Moscow back streets, he amiably teased them and their husbands on their backwardness and parochialism.† (source)
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. (source)parochial = narrow outlook
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His own parochialism made him ashamed by its contrast.† (source)
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American feminism must become less parochial, so that it is every bit as concerned with sex slavery in Asia as with Title IX sports programs in Illinois. (source)parochial = narrowly focused
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This is no longer an age of parochialism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce—co-operation with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death!† (source)
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Massive throngs, a "million-dollar cast" of Hollywood stars, and three days of patriotic fervor awaited them in Chicago, where several hundred thousand public and parochial schoolchildren had become volunteer bond salespeople. (source)parochial = related to a religious organization
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But seeing Frank and his wife began to undermine my parochialism and loosen the hold of the tribalism that still imprisoned me. (source)parochialism = narrow outlook
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He had inched him up through back alleys and smaller races, bypassing the nationally spotlighted races in favor of slow cultivation and parochial seclusion. (source)parochial = narrowly focused
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I suppose I behaved as an absolute bumbler; I no doubt gave the woman yet another stunning example of the "parochialism" she was doomed to encounter outside New York.† (source)
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parochial as in: parochial school
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They both attended parochial elementary schools. Hers was Catholic and his was Lutheran.
parochial = relating to religious organization
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Cathedrals, chapels, tabernacles, abbeys, monasteries, convents, parochial schools .... (source)
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Marita used to go to a parochial school down the street from her home, until her mother heard of KIPP. (source)parochial = related to a religious organization
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Every Orthodox Jew sent his male children to a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school, (source)parochial = relating to a church (or parish) (or in this instance, a temple)
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