parochially
- adverb
- /pəˈroʊkiˌəli/
:
de manera parcial
Examples
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The days of managing water resources parochially must cease.
Academic text (1991) -
This is not to say that parochially driven oversight efforts always lead to changes in defense policy, let alone to improvements in policy.
Academic text (1990) -
Finally, parochially driven oversight efforts at times do shape DoD policies, and not necessarily for the worst.
Academic text (1990) -
It is this combination of powers and limitations that causes local governments to act parochially in land use matters. Since they cannot regulate outside their borders but can regulate within their borders to cause external impacts, each municipality acts in its own interest and ignores the regional impacts of its activity.
Academic text (2016) -
The committee approached the project parochially, focusing only on local issues without considering broader impacts.
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She viewed the entire situation parochially, not realizing how her decisions would affect the larger community.
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His attitude towards environmental policies was parochially narrow, failing to account for global ecological challenges.
Antonyms
How Parochial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parochially comes from parochial, which originally named a small church area called a parish ('local church area'). So, to act parochially is to think only about your small local place, giving a narrow view instead of seeing the bigger picture.