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She had to go back to her native village in the country's north to bring back rice and other essentials to feed her family.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The remains came from both native and introduced animals, including cows, kangaroos, emus, sheep, pigs, dingoes, rabbits, possums, quolls and swamp rats.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Though Aedes aegypti is native to the forests of Africa, it evolved long ago to live in human settlements.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
They recouped just over half of the cost, $11,000, from their native plant wedding registry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
His reputation as a fierce soldier began during a hard-fought war against the Creeks, a native nation allied with the British.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
And they set out to replace the invasive grasses with natives, all procured from the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Scotland matters to him in a way that those many natives who have lived outside the country will recognise.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
While Scotland head coach Steve Clarke had given up hope of his team escaping out of their World Cup group, this particular bunch of Scottish natives clearly had not.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The disinterested universe that serves as backdrop to Mr. Diaz’s world imposes no small amount of irony on Magellan’s campaign to convert the natives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
After that, the natives come to us nearly every day, sometimes two men, sometimes three.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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