as in parochial
not broad or open in views or opinions
an insular community that is not receptive of new ideas, especially from outsiders
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Recent Examples of insular
There's lots of ways people can relate to that insular world.
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Raven Brunner, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
If a leader looks around a C-suite meeting and everyone looks the same, that's an issue because the company is culturally insular and narrow in its view.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
For as insular and targeted as Hollywood awards shows are, there has always been the drive to find a wide audience and high ratings.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 24 Feb. 2025
In Katy Hays' Saltwater, out March 25 from Ballantine Books, the insular superrich Lingate family is haunted by the 1992 death of Sarah Lingate, found dead below the cliffs of Capri and leaving behind her toddler Helen.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025
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For the Americans working in Germany, the industry chain of command conflicted with cultural politics — Americans held parochial views about their post–World War II national superiority.—
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
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The Liberals' smallest lead was in a poll conducted by Innovative Research among 1,548 Canadian citizens, which showed the party with a lead of just 2 points, on 36 percent to the Conservatives' 34 percent—a lead within the poll's 3 percent margin of error.—
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Retail trade, which includes small and large clothing stores, lost 6,700 jobs, around 5,500 of which were not in department stores.—
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Mixed in with small pleasures and petty disputes with her older sister are true feats of survival and bravery.—
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Gangs stop petty thievery in their own neighborhoods.—
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The normally thick horizon haze could attenuate and redden the sun's light somewhat giving it the appearance of a narrow slice of cantaloupe melon.—
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With this victory, Democrats maintain a narrow majority of 102-101 in the state House.—
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“Insular.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insular. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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