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locals

noun as in person deeply rooted in community

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Mr. Bachner said it had been hard to introduce his work ethic and share his vision with the locals and his team.

But locals there say any money deposited is thrown into an unlocked cupboard behind the tellers, hardly inspiring confidence.

Imam Bheel, as locals call him, was added to a list of worldwide traffickers subject to U.S. sanctions in 2009.

He speaks in a whisper, flanked by the two locals who set up the meeting.

They were carpenters making chairs, beds and other rudimentary pieces of furniture for the locals.

The dining room was for the souls of the locals, who could admire the desert more conveniently than find a good meal.

If you take them both away, the locals, whom you have been studiously antagonizing, will swamp whoever you leave behind.

They'll let down on a village, run the locals out, gather up what's around and bring it here.

They felt the culprits had deserved what they'd gotten; not for what they'd done to the locals, but for disobeying orders.

The locals who had been interrogated hadn't been in actual contact with Dunnan's people except in combat.

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

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