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native

adjective as in domestic; not foreign

noun as in person born where they reside

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And my experience, the Chicano experience — my mom’s native, too, so I got a crazy mix.

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A native of Tijuana who came to Los Angeles as a child, King raised five children, including three girls he adopted from foster care, said his daughter, Angela King.

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Normally, alpha-synuclein's natural or "native state" is like a flexible strand, but when active it shapes itself into a helix, which is critical for its function in binding and transporting parcels of dopamine.

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Come this November, the Araraquara native is more primed than ever to be at the center of Latin music’s most prestigious stage.

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He referenced the city’s founding by the Muscogee Creek native people, the area’s oil boom and the 1921 race massacre that only recently resurfaced in the national conversation as evidence of its cultural pertinence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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