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After a month-and-a-half in detention, Velazquez was deported to his native Mexico, leaving the crew he was part of without one of its most experienced workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Would discharge instructions in his native Albanian have been easier to follow?
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
“It used to be such a great town and the ’90s was nice,” the Texas native told Fox News of life in L.A.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Obviously, Spanish is not my native language, but it is something that I’ve been working at for quite a while, and still finding my confidence with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ancient music, such as Gregorian chants; new music, such as some experimental twentieth-century art music; and Non-Western music, such as some native American flute music, may not have a strong, repetitive pattern of beats.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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And there’s a new benefit to them: they’re AI natives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ferrari is Formula 1 in Italy; natives joke that the position of Scuderia team principal is just as important as the identity of the Pope.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
He said he felt being a unionist should not exclude him from putting his culture on display for the city's natives and visitors.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
This is the birthplace of the city, and I know that this was a land of the natives, the Tongva.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Alienation between rulers and ruled even extended to matters of simple nomenclature: according to one modern authority on demotic-script documents, the natives studiously avoided referring to Alexandria in the language of their conquerors.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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