compatriot
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Jack Kerouac sought enlightenment there; his compatriot Neal Cassady was imprisoned there, in San Quentin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch is "very happy" to see compatriot Guy Pearce play him in a new, largely sympathetic movie about his early business life, the actor said on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He has reportedly been training at the Spanish Football Federation's facilities over the summer with compatriot and fellow free agent Joselu.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Together with his powerful compatriot, Agrippa witnesses—and helps bring about—the destruction of the Roman Republic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The man who hung back joined his compatriot.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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Shelton, meanwhile, surged past Tsitsipas in less than two hours to join his compatriots in the last eight.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
In an interview with Bill Moyers shared by the Berry Center in 2025, Berry said that he and his compatriots had had enough of the state government ceding control of resources to the coal companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Spending her Saturday not in uniform but in a T-shirt and jeans, she would like to enjoy a coffee outside -- and resents that her more religious compatriots think otherwise.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
But Romero said he, like many of his compatriots, is in the dark over the objectives of the negotiations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
In search of compatriots, they used to trail their fingers, at the start of each new semester, through the columns of the university directory, circling surnames familiar to their part of the world.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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